Natural Selection/Change Over Time Vocab Review

What is the process in which populations gradually change over time?

• Mutation

• Evolution

• Extinction

• Development

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Who developed the idea of natural selection and studied finches on the Galapagos Islands?

• Charles Darwin

• Gregor Mendel

• Isaac Newton

• Albert Einstein

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Natural selection is the process by which individuals that are better adapted to their environment ____.

• become extinct

• survive and reproduce

• mutate

• lose traits

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What is a characteristic that improves an individual's ability to survive and reproduce in a particular environment?

• Mutation

• Adaption

• Fossil

• Anatomy

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A change in the nucleotide is known as ____.

• Evolution

• Mutation

• Biodiversity

• Embryology

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What is a trait given to the offspring by an organism?

• Inherited trait

• Vestigial structure

• Analogous structure

• Fossil

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A similar structure that related species have inherited from a common ancestor is called ____.

• Homologous Structure

• Analogous Structure

• Vestigial Structure

• Embryology

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What is a group of similar organisms that are closely related and can produce fertile offspring?

• Species

• Biodiversity

• Fossil

• Anatomy

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The variety of all living things and their interactions in their ecosystem is known as ____.

• Biodiversity

• Evolution

• Extinction

• Development

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The complete disappearance of a species from Earth is called ____.

• A) Evolution

• B) Extinction

• C) Mutation

• D) Adaption

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