Evolution Vocabulary Review

The process by which inherited characteristics within a population change over generations such that new species sometimes arise.

• Selective Breeding

• Mutation

• Extinction

• Evolution

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The trace or remains of an organism that lived long ago, most commonly preserved in Sedimentary Rock.

• Mutation

• Selective Breeding

• Extinction

• Fossil

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The death of every member of a species.

• Fossil

• Extinction

• Mutation

• Selective Breeding

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Bird wings and butterfly wings are an example of

• homologous structure

• mimicry

• analogous structure

• camouflage

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Structures that are inherited from a common ancestor are homologous.

• True

• False

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An inherited trait that helps those organisms that have it to survive

• niche

• structure

• characteristic

• adaptation

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This is the organisms with traits best suited to their environment are more likely to survive and reproduce.

• Variation

• Mutation

• Natural Selection

• Gradualism

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A beaver's teeth and an elephant tusk are an example of

• homologous structure

• analogous structure

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Gradual change in a species over time

• evolution

• mutation

• trait

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a change in a gene or a chromosome

• mutation

• adaptation

• trait

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