Evolution Review

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What is evolution?

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Change over time.

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What type of evolutionary evidence shows that during the early stages of life different organisms appear to be very similar?

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Embryology.

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What is the process by which individuals with inherited characteristics well-suited to the environment leave more offspring?

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Natural Selection.

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What does a common ancestor refer to in evolutionary biology?

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An ancestor that two or more descendants have in common.

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True or False: The fastest animals are always the fittest.

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False.

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What is natural selection?

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

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Define common ancestor in the context of evolution.

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A species from which two or more different species have evolved.

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What is the significance of embryology in evolutionary studies?

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It shows similarities in the early development stages of different organisms.

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What is genetic drift?

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A mechanism of evolution that refers to random changes in the frequency of alleles in a population.

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What is gene flow?

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The transfer of genetic variation from one population to another.