Evolution Vocab Review

What word describes a trait that helps an organism survive in its environment?

• natural selection

• mutation

• camouflage

• adaptation

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In a population of ladybugs, black bugs are more successful in escaping predators. Overtime, this gene becomes more popular in the population and the ladybug population loses its red color. This is an example of?

• Natural Selection

• Mutation

• Genetic Drift

• Gene Flow

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Lamarck’s ideas about evolution include the concept that differences among the traits of organisms happen as a result of

• increases in population size.

• the actions of organisms as they use or do not use body structures

• an unchanging local environment

• the natural variations already present within the population of organisms

The most specific classification, a group that mates to produce offspring

• Genus

• Fossils

• Species

• Speciation

The formation of new and distinct species in the course of evolution

• artificial selection

• speciation

• breeding

• non-random mating

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Mistakes or changes that occur int he DNA sequence are called....

• adatations

• Darwinism

• mutations

• natural selection

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Q1. What are the types of structures that are similar in function but not in origin?

• A) analogous structures

• B) homologous structures

• C) vestigial structures

• D) none of the above

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What is a useless structure called?

• homologous

• vestigial

• adaptation

• variation

What is a structure that is similar across species?

• vestigial

• homologous

• adaptaion

• variation

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What is a change in an organism that allows for it to survive in its environment?

• homologous

• vestigial

• variation

• adaptation

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