- Fossil evidence suggests that whales evolved from:
Your answer:
wolf-like land mammals
marine fish
grazing mammals
sharks
- The image above illustrates what evolutionary concept:
Your answer:
embryological similarities
variation among species
vestigial structures
homologous structures
- Which of the following is NOT a component of Evolution by Natural Selection?
Your answer:
competition for food and space
variation among species
survival and reproduction
inheritance of acquired characteristics
- A structure that has no use in an organism is called:
Your answer:
homologous
vestigial
dichotomous
fossilized
- The image above illustrates
Your answer:
vestigial structures
variation of peppered moths
evolution by natural selection
homologous structures
- In science, theories are:
Your answer:
an educated guess
a known fact
absolute and unchangeable
the best explanation for a set of data or observations
- The finches on the Galapagos islands:
Your answer:
migrated to the mainland periodically
had beaks adapted for eating different food
were much larger than other finches
were remarkably similar to each other
- The theory of evolution is known as the unifying theory of biology because:
Your answer:
it allows biologists to classify organisms
it helps to understand relationships between organisms
it is absolute and unchangeable
it answers the question of where we came from
- DNA evidence suggests that the closest relative to the human is the:
Your answer:
chimpanzee
humans have no animal relatives
dolphins
gorilla
- Whales and snakes both have tiny leg bones that are not visible or used. This would suggest that:
Your answer:
both evolved from animals that had legs
they are evolving into animals with legs
whales and snakes are related
leg bones are not necessary
- A group of mice becomes separated by the formation of a river. Over time, the northern mice became smaller and whiter, while the southern mice became larger and browner. This is an example of:
Your answer:
industrial melanism
homology
gigantification
divergence
- Larmarke is to "Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics" as Darwin is to _____
Your answer:
divergence of related species
homologous structures
evolution by natural selection
speciation by common descent