What is the term for a feature that allows an organism to survive better in its environment?
What is adaptation
100
The remnant of an organ that had a function in an early ancestor is known as a(n)
What is vestigial structure
100
What is the process in which humans breed organisms for certain traits?
What is artificial selection
100
Individuals that are well adapted to their environment will survive and produce
What is more offspring
200
What type of selection occurs when individuals in a population with the intermediate phenotype are selected for?
What is stabilizing selection
200
Movement of alleles from one population to another is called?
What is gene flow
200
In _______ selection, individuals with both extreme forms of a trait are at a selective advantage.
What is disruptive selection
200
The structural adaptation that allows a species to resemble another species is..
What is mimicry
300
Natural selection results in change over time by acting on traits that are
What is heritable or all ready existing
300
A bat wing, a bird wing, and a flying squirrel wing are all examples of...
What is analogous structures
300
Two nucleotide sequences found in two different species are almost exactly the same. This suggests that these species
What is may have similar evolutionary histories
300
A picuture shows undisturbed sedimentary strata at the bottom of an ocean. The fossils found in layer B resemble the fossils found in layer A. This similarity suggests that
What is modern forms of life may have evolved from earlier forms of life
400
The process by which organisms with traits well suited to an environment survive and reproduce at a greater rate than organisms less suited for that environment is called ____________________.
What is natural selection
400
A change in species over time is called ____________________.
What is evolution
400
In biological terms, what is a species?
What is a group of organisms that can interbreed
400
The structural similarities between the flippers of whales and the arms of humans are used to show that the
What is human species and whales have a common ancestry
500
A(n) ____________________ consists of all the individuals of a particular species in a particular place.
What is population
500
The way an embryo develops is not important in determining the evolutionary history of a species. (T/F)
What is FALSE
500
Book published by Charles Darwin
in which he proposed a mechanism
and provided evidence for his
Theory of Evolution
What is Origin of Species
500
Islands that Darwin visited on his
voyage on the Beagle that started
him thinking about how organisms
change over time