Evolution Vocab Review

Lamarck’s ideas about evolution include the concept that differences among the traits of organisms happen as a result of

• increases in population size.

• the actions of organisms as they use or do not use body structures

• an unchanging local environment

• the natural variations already present within the population of organisms

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

• Genus

• Fossils

• Species

• Speciation

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The formation of new and distinct species in the course of evolution

• artificial selection

• speciation

• breeding

• non-random mating

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Mistakes or changes that occur int he DNA sequence are called....

• adatations

• Darwinism

• mutations

• natural selection

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On the cladogram, which organism is the closest relative of the human?

• Frog

• Hare

• Caiman

• Parrot

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What is a useless structure called?

• homologous

• vestigial

• adaptation

• variation

What is a structure that is similar across species?

• vestigial

• homologous

• adaptaion

• variation

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What is a change in an organism that allows for it to survive in its environment?

• homologous

• vestigial

• variation

• adaptation

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What is this an example of?

• vestigial structures

• embryology

• homologous structures

• fossil record

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Remains of ancient organisms are called

• Extinctions

• Fossils

• Mutations

• Variations

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