Darwin Evidence

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Science
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8th Grade
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Lisa Thompson
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
The number and location of bones of many fossil vertebrates are similar to those in living vertebrates. This is evidence in support of which of the following concepts?
Lamarck's tendency towards perfection
common descent
analogous structures
the inheritance of acquired traits.
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NGSS.MS-LS4-1
NGSS.MS-LS4-2
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
organs or skeletal elements of animals and organisms that, by virtue of their similarity, suggest their connection to a common ancestor. These structures do not have to look exactly the same, or have the same function.
Analogous Structure
Homologous Structure
Vestigial Structure
Molecular Homology
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NGSS.MS-LS4-2
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Similar DNA sequence between different organisms indicating a common ancestry or evolutionary origin.
morphology
Embryology
Molecular Homology
Adaptation
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NGSS.MS-LS3-1
NGSS.MS-LS4-4
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Father of Evolution, wrote origins of species and studied organisms from Galapagos to support his proposal that natural selection occurs.
Hooke
Darwin
Lamarck
Markiewicz
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NGSS.MS-LS4-2
NGSS.MS-LS4-4
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
A change in a species over time is
Adaptation
Evolution
Diversity
Morphology
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NGSS.MS-LS3-1
NGSS.MS-LS4-1
NGSS.MS-LS4-2
NGSS.MS-LS4-4
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Survival of the fittest. The organism that is best able to survive and passes on its genes in the gene pool.
Natural Selection
Evolution
Adaptation
Law of Superposition
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NGSS.MS-LS4-4
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Similar embryological development in different organisms indicating a common ancestry or evolutionary origin.
Molecular Homology
Morphology
Adaptation
Embryology
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NGSS.MS-LS4-2
NGSS.MS-LS4-3
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