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Biology: Exploring Life ch 14-15 vocab Test

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  1. descent with modification
  2. Taxonomy
  3. fossil record
  4. artificial selection
  5. vestigal structures
  1. a chronological collection of lifes remains in sedimentary rock layers
  2. b process by which descendants of ancestoral organisms spread into various habitats and accumulate adaptations to diverse ways of life
  3. c the selective breeding of domesticated plants and animals to produce offspring with genetic traits that humans value
  4. 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.
  5. e Identification of a species

5 Multiple Choice Questions

  1. medicines that kill or slow the growth of bacteria
  2. formation of new species
  3. Condition in which a reproductive barrier keeps two species from interbreeding
  4. 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
  5. contibution that an individual makes to the gene pool of the next generation

5 True/False Questions

  1. Binomial2 part latin name for species

          

  2. microevolutionMajor biological changes

          

  3. CladogramIdentification of a species

          

  4. Derived Characterchange in gene pool of population due to chance

          

  5. gene flowexchange of genes between populations