Evidences Of Natural Selection

A bird's wing and a butterfly's wing have the same function, but they have very different structures. These structures are classified as follows:

• homologous structures

• analogous structures

• vestigial structures

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The diagram below shows fossils in different rock layers. Which of these statements about the age of these fossils is most likely correct?

• Fossil 1 and 3 are the same age.

• Fossil 2 is older than fossil 3.

• Fossil 4 is older than fossil 3.

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Evolutionary biologists say that similarities between different species are evidence of which of the following?

• Organs shrinking and losing their function

• Formation of the first cell in an organic soup

• The presence of a common ancestor in a species

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What does these image depict?

• Vestigial Structures

• Fossils

• Adaptations

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Structures that appear to have lost size and function over the proposed evolutionary history of an organism are called ________________.

• homologous structures

• analogous strucutres

• vestigial structures

Remains of ancient organisms are called

• Extinctions

• Fossils

• Mutations

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What does this image suggest?

• Law of Superposition

• Specations

• Common ancestor

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Two organisms that are closely related would have

• very similar DNA sequence

• exactly the same DNA sequences

• no proteins in common

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This picture is an example of

• homologous structures

• embryological similarities

• analogous structures

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The study of the early stages of development that is one evidence of evolution is:

• Homologous Structures
• Embryology
• Vestigial Organs

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