EVOLUTION COMPREHENSIVE TEST
PAPER QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
GRADED APLUS
●● Lamarck
Answer: Environmental change leads to use or disuse of a structure. Ex.
Giraffe neck length.
●● Adaptation
Answer: Inherited characteristic that increases an organism's chance of
survival. Example: camouflage.
●● Survival of the fittest
Answer: Individuals that are better suited to their environment survive
and reproduce most successfully
●● Fitness
Answer: How well an organism can survive and reproduce in its
environment.
●● Descent with modification
Answer: Each living species has descended, with changes, from other
species over time
, ●● Fossil
Answer: The preserved remains or traces of an organism that lived in the
past
●● Vestigial Structure
Answer: A structure that is present in an organism but no longer serves
its original purpose. Shows common ancestor.
●● Homologous Structure
Answer: Structures in different species that are similar because of
common ancestry.
●● Analogous Structures
Answer: Body parts that share a common function, but not structure
●● Natural selection
Answer: The driving force behind evolution, by which the environment
"selects" the fittest organisms
●● Common descent
Answer: Principle that all living things have a common ancestor
PAPER QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
GRADED APLUS
●● Lamarck
Answer: Environmental change leads to use or disuse of a structure. Ex.
Giraffe neck length.
●● Adaptation
Answer: Inherited characteristic that increases an organism's chance of
survival. Example: camouflage.
●● Survival of the fittest
Answer: Individuals that are better suited to their environment survive
and reproduce most successfully
●● Fitness
Answer: How well an organism can survive and reproduce in its
environment.
●● Descent with modification
Answer: Each living species has descended, with changes, from other
species over time
, ●● Fossil
Answer: The preserved remains or traces of an organism that lived in the
past
●● Vestigial Structure
Answer: A structure that is present in an organism but no longer serves
its original purpose. Shows common ancestor.
●● Homologous Structure
Answer: Structures in different species that are similar because of
common ancestry.
●● Analogous Structures
Answer: Body parts that share a common function, but not structure
●● Natural selection
Answer: The driving force behind evolution, by which the environment
"selects" the fittest organisms
●● Common descent
Answer: Principle that all living things have a common ancestor
