Evolutionary History

Homologous structures are ones that contradict each other.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Why are fossils important to understanding evolution?

• Dinosaurs are key factors to evolution.

• They provide important evidence of the past; Understanding adaptation.

• To find out we're all descended from iguanas.

• Nothing; They haven't provided any revolutionary information.

What is our closest living evolutionary relative?

• Horse

• Mouse

• Lizard

• Chimpanzee

The examination of fossils led to the discovery that animals were different, but how they're incredibly similar.

• TRUE

• FALSE

When animals move to different environments, they ___ to their environments.

All living things use ___ to encode the information that makes them who they are.

What is the idea of change?

• Adaptation

• Evolution

• Development

• Alteration

Fossils remain in modern day animals.

• TRUE

• FALSE

We're all descended from the same initial ___.

All animals (including people) are descendants.

• TRUE

• FALSE