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Evolution

Total questions: 19

Worksheet time: 23mins

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Date

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Evolution

Nucleotide

Charles Darwin came up with this theory

Natural Selection

Mutation

To adjust to a changing environment

Mutation

Adapt

Darwin wrote that organisms with traits that are best suited to the environment will ________________

increase in number

become extinct

Another word for adapt is ____________.

change

create

Which of the following is NOT an example of natural selection?

People selectively breeding hamsters.

Insect populations developing resistance to certain pesticides.

Bacteria becoming resistant to antibiotics.

Male birds of certain species developing colorful feathers to attract female mates.

Which term refers to the process by which individuals that are better suited to the environment survive and reproduce therefore passing down their genes to their offspring?

Evolution

Variation

Adaptation

Natural Selection

Which species’ DNA is most similar to the DNA of the toothed whale?

Hippopotamus

Baleen Whale

Grazing Mammals

Camels

The environment around Manchester, England, changed during the Industrial Revolution. How did this change affect peppered moths living in the area?

Natural selection favored moths with dark wings because predators could not see them on the soot-colored trees.

Natural selection favored moths with white wings that were easy for predators to see.

Natural selection favored moths with white wings because predators could not see them on the soot-colored trees.

Natural selection caused moths with white wings to become extinct.

10.

When an organism completely dies out, it is called.....

Adaption

Extinction

Fossilization

Mutation

11.

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

12.

Who was the Scientist most famous for his study of natural selection and evolution?

Theodor Schwann

Robert Hooke

Charles Darwin

Rudolf Virchow

13.

What is the process in which populations CHANGE gradually over time?

evolution

species

variation

competition

14.

How do we measure the age of a fossil in years?

variation

absolute dating

selection

mutation

15.

What do you call similar structures that related species have inherited from a common ancestor?

Natural Selection

Analogous Structure

Vestigial Structure

Homologous Structure

16.

What do we call structures that no longer perform their original function?

Natural Selection

Analogous Structure

Vestigial Structure

Homologous Structure

17.

What do you call a characteristic that allows an organism to survive in an environment?

variation

adaptation

selection

overproduction

18.

Select ALL the parts of Natural Selection.

overproduction

evolution

variation

selection

competition

19.

Select ALL that show evidence of evolution.

DNA

mutations

fossils

skeletal structures

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Evolution

Total questions: 19

Worksheet time: 23mins

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