Steele HS Evolution Quiz #1

Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace came up with this theory

• Natural Selection

• Mutation

• Acquired Characteristcs

• Principle of Common Descent

Occurs when two or more species reciprocally affect each other's evolution

• macroevolution

• microevolution

• coevolution

• parallel evolution

when two or more related species have similar evolutionary adaptations

• macroevolution

• microevolution

• coevolution

• parallel evolution

Evolutionary change on a small scale

• macroevolution

• microevolution

• coevolution

• parallel evolution

Evolutionary change on a large scale; Principle of common descent

• macroevolution

• microevolution

• coevolution

• parallel evolution

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Natural selection is known as

• family descent

• survival of the fittest

• convergent evolution

• divergent evolution

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Process by which unrelated organisms develop similarities due to living in similar environments

• family descent

• survival of the fittest

• convergent evolution

• divergent evolution

Process by which closely related organisms develop differences due to living in different environments;

the accumulation of differences between groups

• family descent

• survival of the fittest

• convergent evolution

• divergent evolution

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Which experiment simulated the early conditions on Earth to produce organic molecules and amino acids?

• Louis Pastuer's Experiment

• The Miller-Urey Experiment

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

• Adaption
• Extinction
• Fossilization
• Mutation

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