EVOLUTION QUIZ
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| Who said organisms can be classified according to their similarities? | show 🗑
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| show | Lamarck
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| show | Darwin
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| show | Buffon
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| show | Reproduce together and have a fertile offspring
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| What is incorrect about Lamarck's theory of how organisms evolve? | show 🗑
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| Which scientist developed a system for classifying organisms that is still used today? | show 🗑
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| show | James Hutton
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| Who thought of this idea? Resources such as food, water, and shelter were natural limits to population growth? | show 🗑
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| show | Charles Lyell
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| What is a trace of an organism that existed in the past? | show 🗑
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| show | Evolution
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| What are events such as volcanoes, floods, and earthquakes called? | show 🗑
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| show | Uniformitarianism
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| show | E. Darwin
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| Who thought that giraffes longneck evolved from reaching high trees? | show 🗑
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| Who groups living organisms into categories based on what they look like? | show 🗑
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| Who wrote history natural in 1749? | show 🗑
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| What is a variation among members of different species called? | show 🗑
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| What is variation among members of the same species called? | show 🗑
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| show | Galapagos islands
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| show | That species might be able to adapt to their surroundings overtime
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| show | True
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| True or false? Darwins discovery of marine organisms high in the mountains led him to think that ancient people have carried sea animals from the seaside up into the mountains. | show 🗑
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| show | True
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| show | True
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| Adaptation or variation? Differences in the physical traits of an individual from those of other individuals in the group to which it belongs. | show 🗑
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| show | Adaptation
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| Adaptation or variation a tortoise population lives in an area with high grass. These tortoises have longer necks then tortoises that live in other areas. | show 🗑
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| show | Variation
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| Why did artificial selection interest Darwin? | show 🗑
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| show | If I selected trait is not heritable, it cannot be passed down to the next generation
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| In natural selection, what must be true of traits that are passed down through generations? | show 🗑
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| show | Disease and a limited food supply keep the population smaller
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| What is producing many offspring, some that may not survive? | show 🗑
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| What are individual differences that may be heritable? | show 🗑
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| What is a certain variation well-suited for the environment? | show 🗑
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| show | Descent with modification
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| What is this an example of? Large teeth and jaws become more common in jaguars because there heritable characteristics. | show 🗑
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| show | Adaptation
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| show | Variation
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| show | Overproduction
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| Humans are the selective agent in.... | show 🗑
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| show | Natural selection
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| The ability of a trait to be passed down from one generation to the next is called..... | show 🗑
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| show | Artificial
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| show | Natural
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| What type of evidence describes the example? Species in one area may match species in another area that is separate but still nearby. | show 🗑
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| What type of evidence describes the example? Two different species may have larvae that are very similar. | show 🗑
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| show | Anatomy
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| show | vestigial structures
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| show | The ancestors of whales may have been land mammals
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| show | Homologous structures
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| Feature that performs a similar function in different organisms but not similar in origin is an example of: | show 🗑
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| Feature that is not evidence of a common ancestor is an example of: | show 🗑
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| show | Vestigial structure
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| show | Homologous structures
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| What is the wing of a bird in the wing of an insect an example of? | show 🗑
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| show | DNA sequence analysis
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| show | Proteins comparisons
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| show | Biogeography
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| what is adaptation | show 🗑
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| show | process which humans change a species by breeding it for a certain trait
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| what is decent with modification | show 🗑
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| show | mechanism by which individuals that have inherited beneficial adaptions show differentials reproduction success
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| show | Lamarck
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