Evolution and Natural Selection Quiz

What term is used to describe when nature selects organisms in a population that are better suited for the environment to pass on favorable traits to offspring?

• Genetic variation

• Adaptation

• Natural selection

• Fitness

What is the term for differences among individuals of a species?

• Population

• Genetic variation

• Species

• Gene flow

What is the term for characteristics (trait) of behavior that gives an organism a greater chance of survival?

• Fitness

• Adaptation

• Natural selection

• Phenotype

What term describes the ability to pass viable (living) offspring?

• Reproductive success

• Population

• Species

• Gene flow

What term is used for a group of the same organisms in one area?

• Genetic drift

• Population

• Species

• Evolution

What term describes a group of similar organisms that can breed and produce offspring?

• Population

• Genetic variation

• Species

• Adaptation

What term is used for Change over time?

• Adaptation

• Evolution

• Fitness

• Phenotype

What term refers to individuals that share evolutionary development and are related?

• Homologous structures

• Common ancestor

• Stasis

• Phenotype

What term describes similar bone structures, with different functions that related species have inherited from a common ancestor?

• Homologous structures

• Genetic drift

• Gene flow

• Stasis

What term is used to describe a branching diagram that shows evolutionary relationships between species?

• Phylogenetic tree

• Cladogram

• Taxonomy chart

• Evolutionary map