Evolution Vocabulary Test

A process in which individuals that have certain inherited traits tend to survive and reproduce at higher rates than other individuals because of those traits.

• natural selection

• fossil record

• speciation

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The gradual change in a species over time

• embryology

• evolution

• genetic drift

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A process typically caused by the genetic isolation from a main population resulting in a new genetically distinct species.

• speciation

• natural selection

• bottleneck effect

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-Evolution by "natural selection" (the weaker die out) wrote On the Origin of Species

• Gregor Mendel

• Charles Mendel

• Charles Darwin

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Preserved remains of once-living organisms

• structures

• functions

• fossils

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the geological record of organisms on earth that have been preserved in the rock in a chronological order (oldest on bottom); evidence of common ancestry

• divergent evolution

• homologous structures

• fossil record

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Structures that have different mature forms in different organisms but develop from the same embryonic tissues

• vestigial structures

• homologous structures

• analogous structures

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Similar function but different structure - does not show common ancestry - Ex: butterfly wing and bat wing)

• homologous structures

• analogous structures

• vestigial structures

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A structure that is present in an organism but no longer serves its original purpose

• vestigial structures

• homologous structures

• analogous structures

Process by which individuals that are better suited to their environment survive and reproduce most successfully; also called natural selection

• survival of the fittest

• founder effect

• embryology

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