Evolution #3

What is one type of evidence that supports Darwin's theory of evolution?

• The development of pesticide resistance

• The extinction of dinosaurs

• The migration of birds

• The domestication of dogs

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What do fossils show about organisms that lived in the past?

• They were very similar to organisms alive today

• They were very different than organisms alive today

• They were all aquatic

• They were all herbivores

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How do scientists make inferences about evolutionary relationships?

• By comparing the early development of different organisms

• By studying the migration patterns of birds

• By observing the behavior of animals in the wild

• By analyzing the diet of ancient humans

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What can scientists infer by examining fossils?

• The diet of ancient humans

• The structures of ancient organisms

• The migration patterns of birds

• The behavior of modern animals

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What is an organism's body structure?

• The sequence of nitrogen bases in DNA

• The basic body plan of an organism

• The protein structure of an organism

• The fossil record of an organism

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What are homologous structures?

• Structures that are different in related species

• Structures that are inherited from a common ancestor

• Structures that are unique to each species

• Structures that are found only in fossils

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What evidence do scientists combine to infer species relationships?

• Only DNA and protein structure

• Only fossils and early development

• DNA, protein structure, fossils, early development, and body structure

• Only body structure and early development

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How do scientists infer that species inherited many of the same genes from a common ancestor?

• By comparing the fossil records

• By comparing the sequence of nitrogen bases in DNA

• By studying the early development of species

• By analyzing the body structure

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What has recent DNA comparisons shown about dogs?

• Dogs are more similar to coyotes than to wolves

• Dogs are more similar to wolves than to coyotes

• Dogs are equally similar to wolves and coyotes

• Dogs are not related to wolves or coyotes

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What was once thought about lesser pandas before DNA analysis?

• They were closely related to giant pandas

• They were not related to any other species

• They were closely related to wolves

• They were closely related to coyotes

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