Evolution Unit Review

This scientist was the first to create a system to classify and organize organisms.

• Linnaeus

• Lamarck

• Charles Darwin

• Erasmus Darwin

A feature that allows an organism to better survive its environment

• Variation

• Natural Selection

• Adaptation

• Fitness

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The branch of science that is dedicated to naming and describing different species.

• Evolution

• Taxonomy

• Natural Selection

• Variation

This scientist believed that if an animal (like a giraffe) stretched out its neck for extended periods of time, it would lengthen its neck, and that characteristic would be passed down to further generations.

• Linnaeus

• Lamarck

• deBuffon

• Erasmus Darwin

The theory that the Earth became what it is today through a string of natural disasters.

• gradualism

• uniformitarianism

• evolutionism

• catastrophism

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a system in which individuals that have inherited beneficial adaptations produce more offspring on average than other individuals (with non-favorable adaptations) do.

• Natural Selection

• Artificial Selection

• Evolution

• Variation

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This scientist was the first to propose that all life forms descended from a common ancestor. He also proposed that more complex life forms arose from less complex life forms.

• Linnaeus

• Lamarck

• Charles Darwin

• Erasmus Darwin

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The difference in physical traits

• Adaptation

• Variation

• Natural Selection

• Fitness

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The ability of an organism to survive and pass its genes on to future generations.

• Adaptation

• Variation

• Natural Selection

• Fitness

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The most broad (least specific) group in the Linnaean System

• Genus

• Domain

• Kingdom

• Species