Evolution and Cladogram

According to the cladogram, which organism is most distantly related to the human?

• crayfish

• grasshopper

• perch

• frog

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Which group of animals on this tree are most closely related to birds?

• Saurischian dinosaurs

• Ornithischian dinosaurs

• Crocodiles

• None of these are related to birds

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According to this phylogenetic tree, which creature is the least related out of all pictured?

• Fish

• Frog

• Salamander

• Human

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According to this cladogram, sharks are MOST closely related to which organism?

• Amphibians

• Ray-Finned Fish

• Primates

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 the process by which different kinds of living organisms are thought to have developed and diversified from earlier forms during the history of earth

• Adaptation

• Natural Selection

• Endosymbiotic Theory

• Evolution

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These forelimbs are considered to be evidence of common ancestry because of which of the following?

• They have the same functions.

• They are all from mammals.

• They contain similar structures.

• They all are all the same basic length.

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Change over time is

• evolution

• generation

• growth

• biogenesis

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

• inherited

• acquired

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Which scientist visited the Galapagos Islands and came up with the theory of natural selection?

• Theodor Schwann

• Gregor Mendel

• Charles Darwin

• Rudolf Virchow

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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 island.

• There were different types of food available on the island.

• The finches had no water to drink.

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

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