Evolution Darwin

The African and Asian elephants do not look exactly like their ancient ancestor the woolly mammoth. This is an example of ?

• descent with modification

• common descent

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Choose the ancient ancestor of horseshoe crab.

• woolly mammoth

• glyptodon

• hyracotherium

• trilobite

Changes in body parts, like ears and trunks, and behaviors, like camouflage , that help an organism survive in its environment are called?

• artificial selection

• adaptations

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Who observed variations in the characteristics of plants and animals on the Galapagos?

• Hutton

• Lyell

• Darwin

• Malthus

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Where did Charles Darwin travel while developing this theory?

• Galapagos Islands

• Philippines

• Channel Islands

• Hawaiian Islands

Survival of the Fittest describes which theory

• a) natural selection

• b) gravity

• c) heredity

• d) string theory

In addition to observing living organisms, Darwin studied the perserved remains of ancient organisms called

• fossils

• adaptations

• homologies

• vestigial structures

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The picture shows a/an ___________

• homologous structure

• vestigial structure

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Two organisms that are closely related would have

• very similar DNA sequence

• exactly the same DNA sequences

• no proteins in common

• completely different DNA sequence

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Scientists compare organisms' DNA to support the theory that all species share a common _________________

• separation

• ancestor

• population

• environment

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