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The change in traits over time in a population is known as

• Evolution

• Mutation

• Selection

• Traits

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Which rock layer contains the newest fossils?

• B

• F

• E

• C

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What most likely caused the finches on the Galapagos Islands to have beaks that were different from the finches on the mainland?

• There were different types of predators on the islands.

• The finches on the mainland could not fly high enough.

• There was no water on the islands.

• There were different food types on each island.

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What terms refers to the changes in a species that add up (accumulate) over MANY, MANY years?

• common descent

• adaptation

• evolution

• natural selection

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Which of the following describes an adaptation?

• a trait that makes an organism poorly suited to its environment

• a trait that makes an organism best suited to its environment

• a trait that has no effect on how an organism survives in its environment

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What happens if an organism is well adapted to its environment? Please check ALL that apply.

• The organism survives.

• The organism reproduces.

• The organism passes on its favored adaptations to its offspring.

• The organism can't reproduce.

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Why are favorable traits more likely to be passed onto offspring?

• Because they are more likely to survive and reproduce.

• Because they come from dominant alleles.

• Because they come from recessive alleles.

• Because the trait is an acquired phenotype.

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Structures with the same parts have different functions; suggests that organisms share a common ancestry

• vestigial structures

• homologous structures

• adaptive radiation

• fossil

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The fossil evidence found in these sedimentary layers BEST implies that

• land plants are older than land animals

• invertebrates lived on Earth before vertebrates

• land animals evolved at the same time as marine animals.

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Which color of beetle is the favorable variation?

• green

• orange

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