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WorksheetsEvolution
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 30mins
Which statement does not support scientific theory:
Theories can explain a wide variety of data and observations.
Through advancements in technology, new discoveries can change a theory or add to it.
A theory expresses doubt.
Theories can be used to make predictions
Scientist that presented evidence that evolution happens and gave an explanation of how it happens:
Gregor Mendel
Charles Darwin
Robert Hook
James Watson
Francis Crick
A change in the inherited characteristics of a population (species) over time is called:
evolution
protein synthesis
karyotyping
pedigree analysis
Process when breeders select individuals that have desirable traits that can be inherited by offspring
natural selection
artificial selection
adaptation
embryonic development
Individuals that have traits that allow them to survive in their environment and pass those traits to their offspring is called:
natural selection
artificial selection
karyotyping
selective breeding
Structures that are embryologically similar, but have different functions are called:
analogous structures
equivalent structures
dissimilar structures
homologous structures
Which of the following is not evidence for evolution:
binary fission
embryonic development
homologous structures
biochemistry and DNA
fossils
Bones or organs in an animal that have no apparent function but does have a function in another similar animal (examples: snakes have tiny pelvic and limb bones and humans have a tail bone) are called:
homologous structures
embryonic structures
vestigial structures
analogous structures
Refers to changes in the genes of populations:
microevolution
macroevolution
convergent evolution
coevolution
Which process is not associated with microevolution:
natural selection
migration
extinction
mutation
Pattern of macroevolution when species living in similar environments evolve similar adaptations:
adaptive radiation
gradualism
coevolution
convergent evolution
Pattern of macroevolution when two or more species that live in close contact may affect how each species evolves:
adaptive radiation
gradualism
coevolution
convergent evolution
Movement of individuals into, out of, or between populations that can change the numbers and types of alleles
mutation
migration
punctuated equilibrium
genetic drift
Term that refers to all members of a lineage dying off or failing to reproduce:
genetic drift
gradualism
extinction
convergent evolution
This diagram is called a:
karyotype
pedigree chart
cladogram
heterozygous tree
