Evolution review

Darwin called the combination of physical traits and behaviors that help organisms survive...

• fitness

• diversity

• adaptation

• common descent

A pair of homologous structures is:

• wing and leg

• hand and arm

• arm and wing

• flipper and shoulder

Researchers estimate that of all the species that have lived on Earth, 99%

• have left fossils

• still exist

• are endangered

• are extinct

Which scientist proposed that giraffes stretched their neck longer and longer and passed this acquired characteristic onto their offspring?

• Alfred Wallace

• Charles Darwin

• Jean Lamarck

• Charles Lyell

In natural selection, nature selects from the ___ in a population

• limited resources

• genetic variation

• environmental change

• mutation

Which of the following is an example of "Social Darwinism"?

• The peppered moth of England

• The finches of Galapagos

• discrimination of a race because they are "less fit"

• natural selection among humans

This scientist developed a theory similar to Darwin's

• Thomas Malthus

• Charles Lyell

• Alfred Wallace

• Jean Baptiste Lamarck

This scientist wrote a book on Geology, which influenced Darwin's thinking.

• Thomas Malthus

• Charles Lyell

• Alfred Wallace

• Jean Baptiste Lamarck

This economist showed tat growth is limited by nature

• Thomas Malthus

• Charles Lyell

• Alfred Wallace

• Jean Baptiste Lamarck

This scientist's ideas are known as the "theory of use and disuse"

• Thomas Malthus

• Charles Lyell

• Alfred Wallace

• Jean Baptiste Lamarck