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This English naturalist sailed on HMS Beagle and later proposed that species change over time through a process he called "descent with modification."
- Charles Darwin
- Alfred Russel Wallace
- Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
- Thomas Huxley
The process where organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring is called this type of selection.
- Artificial selection
- Natural selection
- Sexual selection
- Stabilizing selection
These preserved remains or traces of ancient organisms found in rock provide direct evidence of life forms that existed millions of years ago.
- Artifacts
- Sediments
- Fossils
- Minerals
When farmers breed dogs or cattle to enhance desirable traits over generations, they are practicing this type of selection.
- Artificial selection
- Natural selection
- Disruptive selection
- Directional selection
This molecule carries genetic information from parent to offspring and contains the instructions for building proteins in all living things.
- ATP
- RNA
- Protein
- DNA
When a random change occurs in an organism's genetic code, potentially creating new traits that can be inherited, this is called a what?
- Adaptation
- Mutation
- Variation
- Selection
Species that share a common ancestor and have similar bone structures, like the arm bones of humans and whales, are said to have these types of structures.
- Analogous structures
- Vestigial structures
- Homologous structures
- Convergent structures
A feature that helps an organism survive and reproduce in its environment, such as a polar bear's white fur, is called this.
- Adaptation
- Mutation
- Speciation
- Extinction
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