Evolution Unit Test

what did Charles Darwin observe in finch populations of the Galapagos Islands off the coast of South America?

• different species on different islands

• all species on one of the islands

• identical species on all the islands

• the same species as North America

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Why are advantageous 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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Change over time

• Natural Selection

• Selective Breeding

• Homeostasis

• Evolution

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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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What did Charles Darwin have a theroey about ?

• Sleep

• Animals

• Land

• Evolution

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What is natural selection?

• The process by which individuals that are better suited to their environment survive and reproduce most successfully.

• The ability of an animal to learn from its environment and change its behavior accordingly.

• A random process that leads to new species over time without environmental pressures.

• The process by which individuals change their color to match the environment.

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What does Darwin's theory of evolution suggest?

• species change over time

• extinct species are not related to living species

• different species can interbreed

• animals that look alike are most closely related

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What does the theory of evolution suggest?

• species change over time

• extinct species are not related to living species

• different species can interbreed

• animals that look alike are most closely related

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proposed that species can change over time, that new species come from pre-existing species, and that all species share a common ancestor

• camouflage

• theory of evolution

• niche

• primate

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Which scientist gets credit for creating the theory of evolution?

• Isaac Newton

• Lamarck

• Charles Darwin

• Alfred Wallace

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