Life Science Evolution and Adaptation Study Guide

Where those organisms that adapt best survive most

• embryology

• sedimentary rock

• natural selection

• variation

A Variation that makes an organism more suited to its surroundings

• adaptation

• variation

• evolution

• embryology

Rock most likely to contain fossils?

• evolution

• punctuated equilibrium

• sedimentary rock

• natural selection

Model describing evolution as a slow process

• embryology

• homologous

• variation

• gradualism

Body parts similar in structure and origin

• evolution

• embryology

• homologous

• variation

The study of organisms in their earliest stages

• variation

• homologous

• embryology

• evolution

A trait that makes some of the species different that others

• homologous

• embryology

• evolution

• variation

Model describing rapid evolution

• natural selection

• punctuated equilibrium

• homologous

• sedimentary rock

Change in inherited triats over time

• embryology

• variation

• evolution

• homologous

Group of organisms with similar characteristics

• embryology

• variation

• species

• homologous