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- Q 1/21Score 0A _____________ is a group of organisms that share similar characteristics and can reproduce among themselves.29classificationherdtaxonomyspecies
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- Q1A _____________ is a group of organisms that share similar characteristics and can reproduce among themselves.classificationherdtaxonomyspecies30s
- Q2What type of birds did Darwin observe on the Galapagos Islands?PigeonFinchesFowlGrouse30s
- Q3Darwin noticed that all 13 species of finches had different eating habits, so he reasoned thatthey shaved their beaks down on the treesthe beak was shaped according to their teeththe beak was shaped according to their eating habitsthis was not significant30s
- Q4The theory of natural selection was based off of ____________ observations.Baptiste de Lamarck'sMendel'sBill Nye'sDarwin's30s
- Q5___________ is an inherited trait that makes an individual different from other members of its species.VariationAdaptationGenesMutation30s
- Q6Which is NOT an example of a variationan albino squirrel in a population of gray squirrelsfruit without seedsdifferences in the shape of human hairlinesbikers who all have the same tattoo30s
- Q7____________ is any variation that makes an organism better suited to its environment.AdaptationGenesVariationInherited characteristics30s
- Q8Camouflage is best described asacquired characteristicadaptationmutationvariation30s
- Q9A SLOW process by which one species changes to a new species is calledpunctuated equilibriumgeneticsmeiosisgradualism30s
- Q10A RAPID evolution comes about when the mutation of a few genes results in the appearance of a new species over a short period of time.punctuated equilibriummitosisvariationgradualism30s
- Q11Which antibiotic was created in 1943 and then bacteria developed a resistance to it just 4 years later?BenadrylSudafedpenicillinamoxicillin30s
- Q12Scientists who study the past by collecting and examining fossils:biologistsgeologistsarchaeologistspaleontologists30s
- Q13______ are the remains, an imprint, or a trace of a prehistoric organism.ArtifactsCellsFossilsAncestors30s
- Q14Most fossils are found indirtsedimentary rockigneous rockmetamorphic rock30s
- Q15There are 2 methods to determine a fossil's age. One way is based on the idea that younger rock layers are deposited on top of older rock layers. What is the name of this method?relative datingcarbon datingradiometric datingexcavation30s
