Ch 15 Pre-Quiz

A theory that small widespread disasters cause mass extinctions

• uniformitarianism

• catastrophism

• natural selection

• evolution

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This is the distribution of organisms on Earth across continents

• Biogeographical evidence

• Fossil evidence

• Comparative anatomy

• Biochemical Evidence

Developed the binomial nomenclature system

• Buffon

• Linnaeus

• Cuvier

• Darwin

Humans selecting traits they prefer and breeding organisms to increase the frequency of those traits in the population

• Natural selection

• Artificial slection

• Evolution

• Cloning

In natural selection, fitness is

• The more of an organism there is

• The healthier the organism is

• The more successful an individual is at reproducing

• The stronger and faster an organism is

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Which organisms were the most important to Darwin's contributions to natural selection

• tortoises and finches

• rabbits and finches

• ferns and bacteria

• tortoises and sharks

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What is true about natural selection

• It requires a stable environment

• It favors individuals with traits best suited for the environment

• Every individual will survive if they have the best fitness

• It requires man individuals

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Anatomically similar because they are inherited from a common ancestor

• Analogous

• Homologous

• Vestigial

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Anatomically are not the same but serve the same function

• Analogous

• Homologous

• Vestigial

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A structure that has a reduced or obsolete function

• Homologous

• Analogous

• Vestigial

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