EVOLUTION VOCAB QUIZ

The process where organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive longer and produce more offspring.

• Natural Selection

• Adaptation

• Artificial Selection

• Biological Evolution

Structures in different species that have similar appearance/function but have evolved separately and do not share a common ancestor.

• Embryology

• Vestigial Structures

• Homologous Structures

• Analogous Structuers

A branch of biology that studies early life stages and development

• Biological Classification

• Embryology

• Genotype

• Taxonomy

Change over time; the process by which modern organisms have descended from ancient organisms.

• Species

• Coevolution

• Migration

• Evolution

Made up of all the fossils ever discovered on Earth

• Fossil Record

• Trace Fossils

• Mineralization

• Carbonization

Occurs when the last individual organism of a species dies

• Extinction

• Geologic Time Scale

• Fossil Record

• Trace Fossil

These are structures or organs that are shared by different species. They look similar and serve a similar purpose.

• Homologous 

• Vestigial

• Homophone

• Analogous

What was/is LUCA? 

• Last Universal Common Ancestor

• An Italian Fish Person who wants to be a land animal.

• Lost Universal Common Ancestor

• The name of a science program used to explain evolution

Preserved remains or traces of an organism that lived in the past

• fossil record

• species

• fossil

• adaptation

Technique used to determine the actual age of a fossil on the basis of the amount of certain elements it contains

• absolute dating

• natural dating

• relative dating