Evolution

What is the term for a feature that allows an organism to survive in its environment?

• adaptation
• variation
• homologous structure
• vestigial structure

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Who hypothesized that human populations are kept in check by war, famine, and disease?

• Darwin
• Hutton
• Malthus
• Lamarck

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• analogous structures
• homologous structures
• vestigial structures
• none of the above

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What is the process of which humans breed organisms for certain traits?

• artificial selection
• descent without modification
• inheritance of acquired characteristics
• natural selection

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Vertebrate embryos pass through similar stages of development is evidence for

• use and disuse
• homologous structures
• common ancestry
• acquired characteristics

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Individuals that are well adapted to their environment will survive and produce

• better traits
• stronger genes
• more offspring
• fewer mutations

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All the individuals of a species that live in a particular area are called a 

• group
• population
• variation
• fossil

The remnant of an organ that had a function in an early ancestor is known as a(n)

• vestigial structure
• analogous structure
• homologous structure
• fossil structure

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Who said that geological forces acting today are the same ones that have been acting in the past?

• Lamarck
• Darwin
• Hutton
• Lyell 

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What is the study of the distribution of organisms around the world?

• geology
• biogeography
• paleontology
• geography