Evolution Quizizz

The term that best describes  "the better adapted organisms survive to pass traits along to offspring".

• Evolution
• Natural Selection
• Extinction
• Artifical Selection

Inherited trait that helps an organism survive is a(n) __________.

• Fossil
• Adaptation
• Ancestor
• Natural selection

Structures with the same parts have different functions; suggests that organisms share a common ancestry

• vestigial structures
• homologous structures
• adaptive radiation
• fossil

The term for the formation of new and distinct species over the course of evolution is...

• speciation
• biological species concept
• reproductive barrier
• natural selection

What is a species? 

• A group of organisms that can mate with each other and produce fertile offspring. 
• A group of organisms that can mate and produce offspring even if those offspring are infertile.
• A group of organisms that genetically are very different from each other. 
• Indivual organisms that live in the same environment. 

A flash flood carried a raft of Amazon ants away from their original population. There is enough distance between the two groups, that they will never meet in nature again. What type of reproductive barrier is this?

• behavioral isolation

• temporal isolation 

• gametic isolation

• geographic isolation 

When the Grand Canyon in Arizona formed, two populations of one squirrel species were separated by the giant canyon. This is an example of _____________.

• Temporal isolation

• Behavioral isolation

• Geographic isolation

Someone steps on some bugs and randomly removes their alleles from the population. This is an example of

• gene flow

• genetic drift

• speciation

• allele frequency

What term accurately defines the definition below?

All the alleles (for a specific gene) within a population.

• Speciation

• Evolution

• Gene Pool

• Allele Frequency

Inherited trait that helps an organism survive is a(n) __________.

• Fossil
• Adaptation
• Ancestor
• Natural selection