Evolution Vocabulary

What is an inherited characteristic that helps organisms survive?

• Evolution

• Adaptation

• Natural Selection

• Extinction

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The process where organisms best fit for the environment are more likely to survive and reproduce.

• natural selection

• adaptation

• hibernation

• selective breeding

• hybridization

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The change over time in populations of related species.

• biological evolution
• transition
• variation
• adaptation

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A slight difference in an inherited trait between individual members of the same species.

• variations
• adapatations
• homologous structures
• analogous structures

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The study of the similarity and differences in body structures between species.

• comparative anatomy
• embryology
• molecular biology
• archaeology

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Body parts of organisms that are the same in structure and position but different in function.

• embryos
• homologous structures
• analogous structures
• vestigial structures

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Body parts that function like each other, but are different in structure.

• embryos
• homologous structures
• analogous structures
• vestigial structures

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Studying the development of ____ can provide scientists with evidence that certain species are related.

• fish
• embryos
• Tiktaalik
• vestigial structures

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The process in which an animal cannot reproduce any more and dies out is known as _________________________.

• Speciation

• Extinction

• Evolution

• Natural Selection

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measure of an organisms's ability to survive and produce offspring relative to other members of a population 

• Natural Selection
• Adaptation
• Fitness
• Variation

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