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Natural Selection, evidence of evolution, state labs

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The process in which organisms with traits well suited to an environment are more likely to survive and to produce offspring is called

Natural Selection

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Structures with the same parts but have different functions, suggesting that organisms with a backbone share common ancestry is called…

Homologous

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Structures with no function that are remnants of an organism’s evolutionary past are

Vestigial

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Since the 1800s humans have stopped burning coal, and the trees have returned to their original color. Which moth will be more successful in this environment?

Light moths

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What organism on this diagram would have DNA most similar to the penguin?

Chicken

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Which species is a common ancestor for species B and D?

K

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Several of the Galapagos Islands are inhabited by grasshoppers, beetles, flies, bees, and butterflies. Finches that feed on these consumers would have beaks adapted for

Grasping

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All of these finches have different shaped beaks, they are an adaptation to gain access of

Food

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What does genetic drift do to biodiversity?

decrease

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If I wanted to look at DNA to study evolution, I am using what evidence?

Molecular

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Who were the Scientists that discovered Evolution?

Darwin and Wallace

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When a species splits on a phylogenetic tree it's called?

Speciation

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Darwin visited these Islands and studied finches, giant tortoise and other species.

Galapagos Islands

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Darwin consulted with what friends to write his book On the Origin of Species.

Lamarck and Lyell

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Who also wrote a paper about the theory by Natural Selection?

Wallace

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The tortoises on the Galpagos Islands with long necks is an _______ they developed over time to survive.

Adaptation

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