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Vocab for Common Ancestry

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is biological Evolution?

a)

Something with biology

b)

The change in inherited traits over generations.

c)

Birds getting bigger Becks

d)

The change in something

2.

What is Biogeography?

a)

A book on biology

b)

Geography class

c)

The brach of biology that deals with geography in plants and animals.

d)

Plants and animals

3.

What is a fossil record?

a)

Evidence that evolutionary change, through now extinct forms, lead to modern species.

b)

Recording an old person.

4.

What is common ancestry?

a)

When one or more species has a relation to an ancestor species

b)

A family tree but animals

c)

When you have a common old thing

d)

Ancestry that is common

5.

What is homology?

a)

Features that are similar to other organisms.

b)

It’s homo biology

6.

What is anatomical homology

a)

Homo biology

b)

Radical homology

c)

Two different things

d)

Similarity’s in many species

7.

What is vestigial structures?

a)

A feature or behavior that no longer seems to have a purpose in a living animal.

b)

It exists in rocks

c)

Not this one

8.

What is a cladogram?

a)

A gram if clad

b)

A type of cereal

c)

A diagram which has relationships between groups.

9.

What is embryological homology?

a)

It’s not this one

b)

Similarities that are seen prior to adulthood

10.

What is developmental homology?

a)

A similarity due to derivation from a common embryological source

b)

A difference in an animal

c)

It’s homology

11.

What is molecular homology

a)

Mole biology

b)

Biology with moles

c)

A concept where we test relationships between modern animals and ancestors at a molecular level.

d)

Small biology

12.

What is continental drift

a)

Where the contents break up with one another because they where in a toxic relationship

b)

Losing a long time friend

c)

The idea that earth used to be one big land mass

d)

It’s option 3

13.

What is Pangea?

a)

The other idea that earth used to be one big land mass

b)

The base knowledge behind Pandora’s box

14.

What is a generation

a)

All the people born and living at the same time, usually 20-30 years

b)

A gene pool

15.

What is gradualism?

a)

The idea that evolution is a part of gradual changes.

b)

Collage degree

16.

What is microevolution?

a)

Mini evolution

b)

Evolutionary change within a species or small group of organisms over a short period

17.

What is punctuated equilibrium?

a)

Balance

b)

That evolutionary development is naked by episodes of rapid speciation between long periods of time.

18.

What is stasis?

a)

A period or state of inactivity or equilibrium

b)

That one thing in Zelda

19.

What is a gene pool?

a)

The stock of different genes in an interbreeding population.

b)

Genes in a pool

20.

What is geographic isolation?

a)

The physical separation of members of a populations

b)

When geography is lonely