Types of Evolution

 What type of evolution is demonstrated in this photo?

• Coevolution

• Convergent evolution

• Punctuated evolution

• Gradualistic evolution

What is an Analogous Structure?

• Feature that a species inherited from an ancestor but is no longer used

• Similar features in organisms that share a common ancestor, but the features serve completely different functions

• Features of different species that are similar in function but not in structure

Which best describes the two types of shared characteristics?

• 1 - characteristics that remain in the common ancestor and the modern organism

  2 - characteristics that are new and have been modified from what was found in the common ancestor

• 1 - characteristics that are new in the common ancestor and the modern organism

  2 - characteristics that have been modified from what was found in the common ancestor

• 1 - characteristics that have been modified in the common ancestor but not in the modern organism

  2 - characteristics that are new in both the common ancestor and the modern organism

• 1 - characteristics that remain in the common ancestor and the modern organism

  2 - characteristics that are new in both the common ancestor and the modern organism

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Process by which unrelated organisms develop similarities due to living in similar environments

• family descent

• survival of the fittest

• convergent evolution

• divergent evolution

What type of evolution is the following:
The Galapagos tortoises share a common ancestor, but they have different neck lengths to help them in their environment.

• Divergent Evolution

• Convergent Evolution

• Co-Evolution

• Punctuated Equilibrium

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What type of evolution is the following:
Ostriches (birds) and giraffes (mammals) are both native to the savannahs of Africa. They share the same characteristic of a very long neck.

• Divergent Evolution

• Convergent Evolution

• Co-Evolution

• Punctuated Equilibrium

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Vultures and buzzards having featherless heads is an example of which type of evolution?

• Divergent

• Coevolution

• Convergent

• Artificial

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Unrelated organisms come to resemble one another

• convergent evolution

• coevolution

• punctuated equilibrium

• adaptive radiation

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What type of evolution is the following:
Horse evolution shows long stable periods of little evolution interrupted by brief periods of rapid change.

• Divergent Evolution

• Convergent Evolution

• Co-Evolution

• Puntuated Equilibrium

Which type of evolution occurs when two unrelated species develop similar traits due to similar environments?

• Divergent Evolution

• Convergent Evolution

• Co-Evolution

• Parallel Evolution