Taxonomy and Evolution Review

What does the image represent?

• Founder effect

• Bottleneck effect

• Natural Selection

• Mutations

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

What theory proposes that organisms with traits better suited to their environment are more likely to survive and reproduce?

• Acquired Characteristics

• Embryology

• Survival of the Smartest

• Natural Selection

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

What is another name for natural selection?

• survival of the smartest

• survival of the fastest

• survival of the biggest

• survival of the fittest

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

Natural selection results in change in a population's _____________ traits over time.

• inherited

• acquired

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

The ability of an organism to survive and reproduce in its specific environment 

• diversity

• evolution

• mutation

•  fitness

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

Organisms with differences/variations that are helpful will ______________________

• live longer

• become extinct

• show no change

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

The opossum and kangaroo both incubate their young in a pouch. This provides evidence that they---

• are descended from a common ancestor

• Have very similar skeletal structures

• belong to the same species

• must range great distances to eat

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

Select all the organisms that are in the same

genus.

• Macropus giganteus

• Caprimulgus europaeus

• Spirobranchus giganteus

• Caprimulgus macrurus

What is the scientific name of this organism?

Kingdom:Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Mammalia

Order: Rodentia

Family: Sciuridae

Genus: Ratufa

species: indica

• Indica ratufa

• Ratufa indica

• Chordata Amimalia

• Sciuridea rodenta

I sometimes get confused by others to be a plant. I'm heterotrophic and digest decaying material. What kingdom to I belong to?

• Archaebacteria

• Animalia

• Fungi

• Protista