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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• 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

Vertebrate embryos pass through similar stages of development is evidence for

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

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

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Who was the first naturalist to study evolution?

• Charles Darwin
• Gregor Mendal
• Carolus Linneaus
• Thomas Edison

This is a process by which organisms inherited advantageous traits that tend to reproduce more successfully than the other organisms do. 

• Artificial selection
• Natural selection
• Populations
• Environment

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This is a process in which organisms gradually change over time.

• Environment
• Competition
• Evolution
• Fossils

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This is a group of organisms of the same species that live in a specific geographical area.

• Environment
• Evolution
• Biological diversity
• Populations