Evolution Review

Natural selection requires ______________ to happen in a population.

• hundreds of years

• variation

• low genetic fitness

• high genetic fitness

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What is the term for a feature that allows an organism to survive better in its environment?

• variation

• adaptation

• homologous structure

• vestigial structure

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Some organisms that share a common ancestor have features that have different functions, but similar structures.  These are known as

• vestigial structures
• analogous structures
• homologous structures
• fossil structures

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The gradual change in species over time is...

• Evolution
• Nucleotide 
• Adaptation
• Natural Selection

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When organisms are better adapted to their environment they will survive and reproduce more successfully than organisms less adapted. This process is called what?

• Selective breeding

• Natural Selection

• Cloning

• Evolution of all species

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Body parts that share a common function, but not structure would be considered

• Homologous structure

• Analogous structure

• Structural adaption

• Functional adaption

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All the genes, including all the different alleles for each gene, that are present in a population at any one time

• allele

• gene pool

• genome

• mitosis

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Why are advantageous traits more likely to be passed onto offspring?

• Because they are more likely to survive and reproduce.
• Because they come from dominant alleles.
• Because they come from recessive alleles.
• Because the trait is an acquired phenotype.

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The ability of an organism to survive and reproduce is known as?

• Adaptation

• Trait

• Fitness

• Variation

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Only populations can evolve. Individuals cannot evolve.

• True

• False

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