Chapter 15 Review

________ structures are reduced in size or function due to lack of use.

• vestigial

• homologous

• cladistic

• phylogenic

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

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

• adaptation
• variation
• homologous structure
• vestigial structure

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

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

• artificial selection

• survival of the fittest

• inheritance of acquired characteristics

• natural selection

Mutations are important because they bring about

• death of the organism in which they develop
• genetic variation needed for a population to evolve
• benefits for the individual, not for the population
• Hardey-Weinberg equilibrium within a population

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS3-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

This scientist came up with the idea of natural selection. Considered the Father of Evolution

• Jean Baptiste Lamarck

• Gregor Mendel

• Charles Darwin

• Thomas Malthus

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

A remnant or trace of an organism from the past is called a _______.

• Ancestor
• Skeleton
• Fossil
• Imprints

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Survival of the fittest or when favorable adaptations reproduce faster is called what?

• Evolution
• Adaptation
• Natural selection
• Fossilization

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

Structures with the same structure have different functions; suggests that organisms share a common ancestry

• vestigial structures

• homologous structures

• adaptive radiation

• fossil

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

The ability of an organism to survive and reproduce in its specific environment 

• diversity.
• evolution
• adaptation
•  fitness

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

What do we call a change in the genome over time?

• Evolution

• Adaptation

• Extinction

• Environmental influences

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-4