Types of Evolution
Evidence of Evolution
Types of Selection
Evolution
Classification
100

This type of evolution results from unrelated species developing similar traits due to similar selective pressures

Convergent Evolution

100

Wisdom teeth and tailbones are examples of what type of structures in humans?

Vestigial Structures

100

This pattern of natural selection results in selection against both extreme forms of a trait.

Stabilizing Selection

100

How do you determine which organism is the most fit?

Whichever organism has the most healthy offspring.

100

Which category is larger -- Phylum or Kingdom?

Kingdom

200

What type of evolution results in homologous structures?

Divergent Evolution

200

These types of structures show that different selective pressures cause structures to be modified over time to fit their specific needs.

Homologous Structures

200

Which type of selection results from the whole graph shifting towards one of the extreme appearances?

Directional
200

What is an inherited trait that becomes more common in a population because it gives the species an advantage?

An adaptation

200

Which two levels of classification are in a scientific name?

Genus species

300

Does divergent evolution result from similar or different selective pressures?

Different

300

When bacteria develop antibiotic resistance via natural selection, this is an example of what category?

Direct Observation of Evolutionary Change

300

Selection against the average form of a trait

Disruptive selection

300

____________ act on a population and select for/against traits.

Selective pressures

300

Do you bold or underline a scientific name?

Underline

400

What type of evolution involves each type of organism acting as the selective pressure on each other?

Coevolution

400

Studying where Darwin's finches live falls under what category?

Biogeography

400

This type of selection when humans act as the selective pressure.

Artificial Selection

400

In artificial selection, what is the selective pressure?

Humans
400

What are the two ideas about how fast species evolove?

Gradualism and punctuated equilibrium

500

Darwin's finches are an example of which type of evolution? 

Divergent Evolution 

500

What category of evidence would compare the sequence of DNA letters from one species to the next?

DNA

500

Which pattern of natural selection describes the rock pocket mouse example?

Directional Selection 

500

In a population of bactera, why did some survive?

Because they had a variation that allowed them to survive (it was not a choice and they did not make an adaptation)
500

When two populations evolve far enough apart that they are now two different species, what type of evolution has caused this?

Divergent Evolution