EVOLUTION/NATURAL SELECTION

What is Biological Evolution?

• The proces in which animals drink water.

• The process in which plants and animals reproduce.

• The process in which living organisms change through the passed of the years.

• The process in which explains the cycle of life.

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_____________ is the fact that organisms change over time and are related through common ancestors.

• Homologous Structures

• Hereditary

• Evolution

• Survival of the fittest

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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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Who is the father of evolution?

• Darwin
• Mendel
• Newton
• Einstein

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Which of the following pieces of evolution evidence deals with structures common in embryos that form differently or for different purposes in adult form?

• fossil record
• comparing embryology
• comparing biochemistry
• comparing anatomy

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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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Mutations are a change in what?

• DNA
• tRNA
• genotype
• phenotype

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Which organisms are most likely to survive?

• the best adapted
• the fastest
• the strongest
• the most domesticated (tamed)

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The differences among a species, like different bird beaks, are called

• genes.
• variations.
• traits.
• theories.

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The trees these moths used to live on were white, but have been covered in soot from coal factories. Which moth will be more successful in this environment?

• Dark moth
• Light moth
• Both will be equally successful
• Neither will be successful

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