Biology Benchmark Review

Front

What does DNA code for?

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Genes

Front

What do scientists compare fossils to in order to provide evidence for evolution?

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Extinct species

Front

What is the mechanism that causes evolution?

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Natural selection

Front

What does the body fail to produce enough of in sickle cell disease?

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Healthy red blood cells

Front

What do scientists use to find common proteins and amino acids to determine how closely related species are?

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DNA

Front

What are the building blocks of proteins?

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Amino acids

Front

What is the process by which organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring?

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Natural selection

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What is the term for structures that have no apparent function but resemble functional structures in other species?

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Vestigial structures

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What type of structures are similar in different species due to shared ancestry?

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Homologous structures

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What is the study of the distribution of species and ecosystems in geographic space and through geological time?

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Biogeography