Evolution Introduction

Two organisms that are closely related would have

• very similar DNA sequence

• exactly the same DNA sequences

• no proteins in common

• completely different DNA sequence

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The process where organisms best fit for the environment are more likely to survive and reproduce.

• natural selection

• adaptation

• hibernation

• selective breeding

• hybridization

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This is a process in which organisms gradually change over time.

• Environment

• Competition

• Evolution

• Fossils

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Who was the first naturalist to study evolution?

• Charles Darwin

• Gregor Mendal

• Carolus Linneaus

• Thomas Edison

Where the better adapted organisms survive to pass traits along to offspring.

• Evolution

• Natural Selection

• Extinction

• Artifical Selection

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Body part you have that use to have a purpose but now has little or no function

• vestigial organ

• embryology

• homologous structures

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Scientist that contributed the most to our understanding of evolution

• Darwin

• Lamarck

Organisms with the best suited adaptations for their environment are more likely to survive and reproduce than organisms that are not very well adapted

• natural selection

• artificial selection

• creationism

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a trait that gives an organism an advantage in their particular environment

• overproduction

• adaptation

• selection

• variation

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The cave fish and minnow are related to each other but the cave fish is blind and only has the remnants of an eye. What type of structure is this?

• vestigial

• analogous

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