Common ancestor and mutations
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- Q 1/11Score 0Which of the following statements is best supported by the classification in the diagram above?29The Utah Prairie dog is the ancestor of Gunnison's Prairie dogThe Mexican Prairie Dog and the Utah Prairie Dog share a common ancestorThe White-Tailed Prairie dog evolved from the Black-Tailed Prairie DogThe Mexican Prairie is the closest relative of the White-Tailed Prairie Dog
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- Q1Which of the following statements is best supported by the classification in the diagram above?The Utah Prairie dog is the ancestor of Gunnison's Prairie dogThe Mexican Prairie Dog and the Utah Prairie Dog share a common ancestorThe White-Tailed Prairie dog evolved from the Black-Tailed Prairie DogThe Mexican Prairie is the closest relative of the White-Tailed Prairie Dog60s
- Q2Skeletal structures are common between two animals of different species. These structures probably exist because both specieshave survived until the present timehave a common food sourcelive in the same environmentare related to a common ancestor60s
- Q3Which statement describes the best evidence that two species share a recent common ancestor?the species live in the same ecosystemthe species have similar DNA sequencesthe species eat the same type of foodthe species are about the same size60s
- Q4Frogs, lizards and birds have a similar arrangement of bones in their limbs. Which of the following does the similarity most likely indicate about these animals.they move in the same waythey evolved at the same timethey have a common ancestrythey are comparable in size as adults60s
- Q5This is the ultimate source of genetic variation in a speciesadaptationmutationscommon ancestorsnatural selection60s
- Q6This is the gradual change of living things over many generations to become better adapted (or suited) to their environmentadaptationchangemutationbiological evolution60s
- Q7A random change in a gene that may be harmful or helpful is known ascommon ancestorevolutionmutationadaptation60s
- Q8The different shapes of bird beaks that Darwin studied is an example ofbreedingnaturalismevolutionfossil60s
- Q9Only organisms with desired traits are bred inartificial intelligencemutationsselective breedingnatural section60s
- Q10Species become extinct when they are not able toproduce large number of offspringreproduce quicklyadapt to changes in the environmentevolve into new species60s
- Q11An individual that survives due to variations that suit the environment is supported byPhylogenySurvival of the fitestMutationNatural Selection60s