WorksheetsEvolution review
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
What was the name of Dwain's book that explained his theory of Evolution
On Natural Selection
The Survival of the Fittest
On the Origin of Species
Why Lamarck was Wrong
Body parts that are similar in structure and position but different in function
vestigial structures
analogous structures
homologous structures
Body parts that have lost their original function through evolution
vestigial structures
analogous structures
homologous structures
Body parts that are similar in function but different in structure
vestigial structures
analogous structures
homologous structures
An inherited trait that helps those organisms that have it to survive.
What causes a new trait/phenotype to appear in a population?
Competition and necessity
Speciation
The ABILITY of an organism to survive and reproduce in its environment
Adaptation
fitness
Mutation
Natural Selection
The process where the better adapted organisms survive to pass traits along to offspring.
How do you "win" at natural selection?
survive
go extinct
survive & reproduce
The name of Darwin's ship?
The HMS Beagle
The HMS Beetles
The Titanic
The Mayflower
Which scientist proposed the theory of evolution?
Alfred Russell Wallace
Charles Darwin
Alfred Russell Wallace and Charles Darwin both independently came up with the theory of evolution. However, Darwin had been developing his ideas for longer and his work was more comprehensive.
