Evolution Review

Linnaeus created this scientific two name system to classify life on Earth

• binomial nomenclature

• latin

• layman's terms

• scientific notation

Lamarck believed that if an organism extends its neck then eventually its offspring will have longer necks

• gradualism

• law of use and disuse

• catastrophism

• competition

Mass destructions may speed up evolution

• gradualism

• uniformitarianism

• catastrophism

• fixed life

Older fossils are found lower and newer fossils are found closer to the surface

• plate tectonics

• geographic aging

• surface transformation

• superposition

Superposition and radiometric dating are two ways to date the age of a fossil. Which of these two is absolute or (more accurate)

• superposition

• radiometric dating

This method of dating a fossil uses the decay rate of radioactive atoms

• radiometric dating

• fossil position

• gamma ray absorbance

• mutation rate

Structures that have similar bone structure but different uses, such as, a human arm, a cat leg, a whale flipper, a bat wing, are called

• common structures

• homologous structures

• bone homology

• analogous structures

Whales have the remnants of hip bones. These are from an ancestor that used to have four legs. These types of remnants of previous structures are called

• ancient structures

• emerging forms

• vestigial structures

• evolving bones

The comparison of the embryos of different species is evidence of

• coincidence

• no common ancestor

• equal structures

• a common ancestor

The fewer the differences in DNA between two species indicates

• they are closely related

• they are distantly related

• they are identical

• they are from different planets