Evolution Final Review

The tree of life is a metaphor for what idea?

• we came from a common ancestor

• we need water and sunlight to survive

• we have multiple species

• we are old

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Charles Darwin came up with this theory 

• Natural Selection

• Mutation

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Two organisms that are closely related would have

• very similar DNA sequence

• exactly the same DNA sequences

• no proteins in common

• completely different DNA sequence

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what did Charles Darwin observe in finch populations of the Galapagos Islands off the coast of South America?

• different species on different islands

• all species on one of the islands

• identical species on all the islands

• the same species as North America

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Darwin wrote that organisms with traits that are best suited to the environment will ________________

• increase in number
  

• become extinct
  

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What is the term for a feature that allows an organism to survive better in its environment?

• variation

• adaptation

• homologous structure

• vestigial structure

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Structures with the same parts have different functions; suggests that organisms share a common ancestry

• skeletal structures

• adaptive radiation

• fossil

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According to the diagram, which organism is older?

• ammonite

• coral

• gastropod

• trilobite

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Who is the father of evolution?

• Darwin

• Mendel

• Newton

• Einstein

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What is another name for natural selection?

• survival of the smartest

• survival of the fastest

• survival of the biggest

• survival of the fittest

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