Evolution and Natural Selection

Question 1

Structures that are reduced in size due to lack of use:

Answer 1

Vestigial

Question 2

What is the term for a feature that allows an organism to survive in its environment?

Answer 2

Adaptation

Question 3

What is the process by which humans breed organisms for certain traits?

Answer 3

Artificial Selection

Question 4

Mutations are important because they bring about:

Answer 4

Genetic variation needed for a population to evolve

Question 5

Finches on the Galapagos Islands had different beaks in order to help them do what

Answer 5

Collect food sources

Question 6

This scientist came up with the idea of natural selection. Considered the Father of Evolution

Answer 6

Charles Darwin

Question 7

Remains or traces left over of an organism from the past is called a…

Answer 7

Fossil

Question 8

Survival of the fittest or when favorable adaptations reproduce faster is called what?

Answer 8

Natural Selection

Question 9

Structures with the same structure have different functions; which suggests that organisms share a common ancestry

Answer 9

Homologous structures

Question 10

The ability of an organism to survive and reproduce in its specific environment

Answer 10

Fitness

Question 11

What do we call a change in the genome over time?

Answer 11

Evolution

Question 12

This mechanism of evolution occurs when populations migrate.

Answer 12

Gene flow

Question 13

Type of evidence to do with creatures while still young:

Answer 13

Embryonic Development

Question 14

A few deer wander out of their native woods into a completely new park where no deer had ever been before. They go on to create an entirely new population.

Answer 14

Genetic Drift

Question 15

The female birds of paradise tend to look for the most colorful, best-dancing males to make babies together.

Answer 15

Non-random mating

Question 16

Dramatic reduction in a population:

Answer 16

Bottleneck Effect

Question 17

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?

Answer 17

Light Moth

Question 18

Genetic mutations are the direct cause of:

Answer 18

Variations

Question 19

Structures are similar in function but not in structure:

Answer 19

Descended from a common ancestor

Question 20

The struggle for existence against other members of an organisms species is…

Answer 20

Competition

Question 21

These are natural differences within a species.

Answer 21

Genetic variation

Question 22

Mutations are a change in what?

Answer 22

DNA