Vocab Review

Question 1

evolution

Question 2

adaptation

Answer 2

heritable trait or behavior in an organism that aids in its survival and reproduction in its present environment

Question 3

fossil

Question 4

strata

Question 5

paleontology

Question 7

natural selection

Answer 7

reproduction of individuals with favorable genetic traits that survive environmental change because of those traits, leading to evolutionary change

Question 8

artificial selection

Question 9

The Origin of Species

Question 10

homology

Question 11

homologous vs. analogous structures

Answer 11

homo: parallel structures in diverse organisms that have a common ancestor

analog:

Question 12

vestigial structures

Answer 12

physical structure present in an organism but that has no apparent function and appears to be from a functional structure in a distant ancestor

Question 13

convergent evolution

Answer 13

process by which groups of organisms independently evolve to similar forms

Question 14

biogeography

Question 15

endemic