Evidence of evolution- DOL

The physical features of animals in this family and the family's geographical origin provide evidence that all these animals ______

• Live in the same type of ecosystem.

• Have slowly evolved to become herbivores.

• Have a common ancestor.

• Exchanges DNA at some point.

Which statement is best supported by the observable structures of the different humerus bones?

• The primates lived in similar environments.

• The primates shared a common ancestor.

• The primates interbreed with similar organisms in a population.

• The primates had diets that consisted of similar types of foods.

Which statement is supported by this cladogram?

• Hippopotamuses are more closely related to cows than to javelinas.

• Toothed whales are more closely related to mouse deer than to hippopotamus.

• Javelinas and pigs are more closely related than baleen whales and toothed whales.

• Cows and mouse deer are more closely related than javelinas and pigs.

Which statement about the ancestry of the lizards from the genus Gallotia is best supported by this information?

• The common ancestor of the lizards first colonized the island of El Hierro.

• The ancestors of each species came from different continents at different times.

• The common ancestor of the lizards probably came from Africa.

• The ancestors of each species evolved in Spain and were brought to the islands at the same time.

Which organism is the LEAST related to the other three?

• organism 1

• Organism 2

• Organism 3

• Organism 4