Evolution study Guide for the test Wednesday, 12/17

Question 1

Fossil

Answer 1

The remains of a impression of a prehistoric organism

Question 2

Fossil Record

Answer 2

The remains of imprints from extinct creatures in dinosaur age or before dinosaur age

Question 3

Adaptation

Answer 3

The action or process of adapting or being adapted

Question 4

Speices

Answer 4

A group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals capable of passing genes

Question 5

Theory of Evolution

Answer 5

Natural selection continues to work on our species of evolution

Question 6

Charles darwin

Answer 6

In 1859 wrote an essay called “ On the Origin of species by Means of Natural Selection “

Question 7

Theory of Natural Selection

Answer 7

1) Overproduction
2) Inherited variation
3) Struggle to survive
4) Successful Reproduction

Question 8

Mutation

Answer 8

Changes in the number, type, or order of bases on a piece of DNA

Question 9

Speciation

Answer 9

A new and distinct Species of Evolution

Question 10

Primate

Answer 10

The chief bishop or archbishop of a province.

Question 11

Hominids

Answer 11

a primate of a family that includes humans and their fossil ancestors

Question 12

Bipedalism

Answer 12

A form of terrestrial locomotion where an organism moves by means of its two rear limbs or legs.

Question 13

Neanderthals

Answer 13

An extinct species of human that was widely distributed in ice-age Europe between circa 120,000–35,000 years ago, with a receding forehead and prominent brow ridges.

Question 14

Homo sapiens

Answer 14

Is a binomial nomenclature for the human species.