Vocab Practice on Evolution and Structures

Which term refers to the preserved remains or traces of organisms from the past?

• Biogeography

• Homologous structures

• The fossil record

• Cladogram

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

What is the study of the distribution of species and ecosystems in geographic space and through geological time?

• Phylogeny

• Biogeography

• Molecular homology

• Gradualism

Which structures are similar in different species because they share a common ancestor?

• Analogous structures

• Vestigial structures

• Homologous structures

• Cladogram

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

What are structures that perform a similar function but are not derived from a common ancestor?

• Homologous structures

• Analogous structures

• Vestigial structures

• Phylogeny

Which term describes structures that have lost most or all of their ancestral function?

• Vestigial structures

• Molecular homology

• Gradualism

• Punctuated equilibrium

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

What is the study of the molecular similarities and differences among species?

• Cladogram

• Molecular homology

• Biogeography

• Gradualism

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NGSS.MS-LS4-3

What is the evolutionary history and relationship among individuals or groups of organisms?

• Phylogeny

• Cladogram

• Punctuated equilibrium

• Analogous structures

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-3

Which diagram is used to show the evolutionary relationships among various biological species?

• Cladogram

• Fossil record

• Vestigial structures

• Molecular homology

What term describes the theory that evolution proceeds chiefly by the accumulation of gradual changes?

• Punctuated equilibrium

• Gradualism

• Biogeography

• Homologous structures

Which theory suggests that species experience long periods of stability interrupted by brief periods of rapid change?

• Gradualism

• Punctuated equilibrium

• Molecular homology

• Phylogeny