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Which animals and features did Darwin study on his journey to the Galapagos Islands?

• Finches' wings and alligators' tails
• Lizards' claws and finches' beaks.
• Lizards' claws and finches' wings
• The camels' eyes and penguins' teeth.

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What do archaea and bacteria have in common?

• Their cells have well-defined nuclei

• They are multicellular

• They are all shaped like rods, spheres, and spirals

• Their cells have no nuclei

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What is the common ancestor of Letters A, B, C, D, E?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

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What is common ancestry?

• When a species no longer exists

• When organisms are descended from a single ancestor

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The forelimbs of humans, cats, whales, and bats are similar in structure due to having a common ancestor hundreds of millions of years ago. Is this considered homolgy or analogy?

• Homology

• Analogy

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Which pair of animals is most closely related?

• R&S

• R &U

• S&T

• S&U

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Which descendant species is most likely to have body structures that are the most different from Descendant Species B? Select 2

• Descendant Species A

• Descendant Species C

• Descendant Species D

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The diagram provided here is an evolutionary tree. It shows how groups of organisms are related through a shared evolutionary history. The nodes on the diagram show the shared characteristics that link the related groups of animals. Two of the nodes are labeled with the correct characteristics. Which of the nodes should be labeled “body hair”?

• Node A

• Node B

• Node C

• Node D

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The process by which unrelated organism evolve similar characteristics is called

• biology

• convergent evolution

• ordering

• classification

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Phylogeny can be described as the study of:

• How species interact with each another

• How species interact with habitats

• How species are related genetically

• How organisms mature over time

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