NAME: ________________________
← Biology: Exploring Life ch 14-15 vocab Test
5 Written Questions
5 Matching Questions
- descent with modification
- Taxonomy
- fossil record
- artificial selection
- vestigal structures
- a chronological collection of lifes remains in sedimentary rock layers
- b process by which descendants of ancestoral organisms spread into various habitats and accumulate adaptations to diverse ways of life
- c the selective breeding of domesticated plants and animals to produce offspring with genetic traits that humans value
- d remenants of structures that may have had important functions in an ancestoral species, but have no clear function in some of the modern descendants.
- e Identification of a species
5 Multiple Choice Questions
- medicines that kill or slow the growth of bacteria
- formation of new species
- Condition in which a reproductive barrier keeps two species from interbreeding
- the process by which individuals with inherited characteristics well-suited to the environment leave more offspring on average than do other animals..this causes the organisms to adapt to the developed environments around them
- contibution that an individual makes to the gene pool of the next generation
5 True/False Questions
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Binomial → 2 part latin name for species
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microevolution → Major biological changes
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Cladogram → Identification of a species
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Derived Character → change in gene pool of population due to chance
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gene flow → exchange of genes between populations
Regenerate Test