Amplify Evolution Vocabulary

This octopus and this surf clam both have a body structure called a mantle, which covers their soft bodies. However, the octopus’s mantle has muscles that help the octopus swim. The surf clam’s mantle helps the clam build its shell. Why are the mantles different?

• All species have their own specific body structures, so it is just a coincidence

• The octopus and surf clam are different species, so they do not share an ancestor population.

• It is impossible to explain the body structures of different species

• The octopus and surf clam both inherited the mantle structure from a shared ancestor population.

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a body structure in two or more species that has the same parts (for example, the same bones).

• evolution

• limb

• paleontologist

• shared structure

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a group of organisms of the same kind that can successfully reproduce with their own kind

• species

• stability

• organisms

• speciation

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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The change over time in populations of related species.

• biological evolution

• transition

• variation

• adaptation

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A slight difference in an inherited trait between individual members of the same species.

• variations

• adapatations

• homologous structures

• analogous structures

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Studying the development of ____ can provide scientists with evidence that certain species are related.

• fish

• embryos

• Tiktaalik

• vestigial structures

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measure of an organisms's ability to survive and produce offspring relative to other members of a population 

• Natural Selection

• Adaptation

• Fitness

• Variation

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The process in which populations gradually change over time is called: 

• Ecosystem

• Evolution

• Environment

• Extinct specie

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The process in which organisms that possesses the most desirable traits and genes will  be successful in surviving and producing the next generation.

• Adaptation

• Natural Selection

• Artificial Selection

• Selection

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