Evidence for Evolution

What type of selection is the graph showing?

• Natural Selection

• Disruptive Selection

• Stabilizing Selection

• Directional Selection

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NGSS.HS-LS4-4

If thick-shelled oysters are tougher to crack open than thinner-shelled oysters, crabs will be less able to prey upon them, and thick-shelled oysters will be more likely to survive and reproduce. This scenario is an example of

• Directional selection

• adaptations

• Disruptive Selection

• Stabilizing Selection

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

Small flies are easy prey for spiders and large flies are easy prey for woodpeckers. Medium sized flies tend to survive best. This is an example of

• Directional Selection

• Fitness

• Stabilizing Selection

• Disruptive Selection

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

Structures which are similar enough to indicate common ancestry

• Analogous structure

• Homologous Structure

• Vestigial Structure

• Fossil

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

The "survival of the fittest" or the idea that species with the best traits will survive and reproduce and the species with less favorable traits will die or not reproduce

• Speciation

• Natural Selection

• Anatomy

• theory

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

The process through which new species are created

• natural selection

• evolution

• embryo

• speciation

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NGSS.HS-LS4-5

A structure that has no apparent purpose, but many provide evidence of past evolutionary forms

• homologous structure

• vestigial structure

• species

• analogous structure

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

Structures which are similar in function, but do not provide evidence of common ancestry

• homologous structures

• anatomy

• analogous structures

• vestigial structure

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

What organism is most related to the lizard ?

• Snake

• Turtle

• dinosaur

• crocodile

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

What trait separates the pigeon from the mouse and chimp?

• Lungs

• feathers

• fur; mammary glands

• claws or nails

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2