Biological Evolution Vocabulary

What is an inherited characteristic that helps organisms survive?

• Evolution

• Adaptation

• Natural Selection

• Extinction

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The most specific classification, a group that mates to produce offspring

• Genus

• Fossils

• Species

• Speciation

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Imprints or remains of once living organisms are called ....

• Evolution

• Vestigial Structures

• Homologous Structures

• Fossils

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Evolution is...

• changes over time in populations

• natural process that passes favorable traits

• historical timeline of fossils

• the process in which an animal dies out

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Layered fossils create a historical sequence (timeline) is known as ____________.

• Natural Selection

• Evolution

• Fossil Record

• Extinction

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A body, organ, or bone that is still present but no longer useful to the organism is ______________________.

• Homologous Structure

• Vestigial Structure

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A similar bone or organ within many different species of life is a ____________________.

• homologous structure

• vestigial structure

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Natural selection is the process that passes down ____________________ traits.

• Same

• Old

• Useless

• Favorable

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A mistake or change that occurs in the DNA sequence is called a ______________________.

• Extinction

• Speciation

• Mutation

• Genetic Variation

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The process in which an animal cannot reproduce any more and dies out is known as _________________________.

• Speciation

• Extinction

• Evolution

• Natural Selection

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