Chapter 5; Section 1; Pages 106-115
1. One way to tell kinds of animals apart is by their ______.
2. How does adaptation help an organism?
3. If one animal or plant has the same characteristics as another, they may both be part of the same
a. Evolution c. Species
b. Planet d. Fossil record
4. Two organisms that can mate to produce offspring that can reproduce belong to the same ______.
5. When members of the same species live in the same place, they form a(n) ______.
6. Scientists have observed that species ______over time.
7. The inherited ______in populations also change over time.
8. The process by which new species gradually develop is called ______.
9. Where do scientists look for evidence of evolution?
10. Describe how fossils usually form.
11. What is the timeline of life formed by studying fossils called?
12. Fossils in newer layers of the Earth tend to resemble current ______.
13. In older layers of the Earth, are fossils more or less likely to resemble today’s animals and plants?
14. All living things inherit similar traits from their
a. Ancestors c. Fossils
b. Evolution d. Descendants
15. List two groups of animals that may share a common ancestor with whales?
16. Scientists think that all mammal species alive today evolved from common ______.
17. Scientists have combined information on hundreds of thousands of organisms to sketch out a ______that includes all known organisms.
18. What does the lack of a fossil record for some of the Earth’s history mean to scientists?
19. In addition to fossils, how can scientists learn about an organism’s ancestors?
20. List three things about whales that tell scientists they are not fish.
21. What does a whale body have that hints it had an ancestor that lived on land?
22. What evidence did scientists find that ancient land mammals evolved into modern whales?
23. If you compared two kinds of living organisms, what might you learn about their history?
a. How long ago they evolved
b. Whether they share a common ancestor
c. Whether they live in the same place
d. Whether they could mate and reproduce
24. What makes the human hand similar to a dolphin’s flipper or bat’s wing?
a. The ability to flap
b. The structure of the skin
c. The order of their evolution
d. The structure and order of their bones
25. What does the similarity between humans, dolphins, cats, and bats indicate?
a. That they all evolved recently
b. That their ancestors lived in the same place
c. That they share a common ancestor
d. That the yare becoming more alike over time
26. If organisms with similar traits evolve from a common ancestor, what will they share?
a. Similar DNA
b. Similar arms and legs
c. The ability to mate with each other
d. Similar fossils
Chapter 5; Section 2; Pages 116-121
1. List 3 things scientists learned about Earth beginning in the 1800’s.
2. What did Darwin do during his travels around the world?
a. He wrote a book about his theory
b. He collected thousands of plant and animal samples
c. He took photos of plants and animals
d. He visited all the continents
3. Darwin noticed that the plants and animals on the ______were similar to, but not the same as, those in Ecuador.
4. What was one way that finches on different islands differed from each other? How were the beaks adapted?
5. What puzzled Darwin about the Galapagos finches?
a. They were so different
b. They should not have been there
c. They were too similar
d. They were similar, but had many differences
6. A specific characteristic that can be passed from parent to offspring through genes is a(n)
a. Species c. Trait
b. Breeding d. Adaptation
7. What hypothesis did Darwin develop about Galapagos finches?
8. The idea that human populations can grow faster than the food supply is called ______.
9. Who developed the idea that Earth had formed naturally over a long period of time?
10. What is selective breeding? Why is it used?
11. After reading Malthus’s theory, Darwin realized that any species can produce many ______.
12. What limits the number of offspring?
13. Darwin began to think that species could ______in their environment and that species could ______over time.
14. What idea of Darwin’s was supported by Lyell’s book?
15. What theory did Darwin introduce in the book?
16. List two things that Darwin did not know in relation to his theory.
17. Today, scientists explain natural selection in terms of changes in ______.
18. When organisms carry genes that make them more likely to survive to reproduce, the process called ______occurs.
Chapter 5; Section 3; Pages 122-125
1. Bacteria passing resistance to a medicine on to offspring is an example of
a. Natural selection c. Genetic change
b. Chemical action d. Overproduction
2. What does natural selection explain about a population?
a. How long it has been since it evolved
b. How it changes in response to its environment
c. How it resists change
d. How likely its members are to leave fossils
3. Which individuals in a population are most likely to survive and reproduce?
a. The largest ones c. The best adapted
b. The ones with most DNA d. The oldest
4. The growing rate of tusk-less elephants in Uganda is an example of
a. Selective breeding c. Adaptation
b. Luck d. Speciation
5. Why are tuskless elephants becoming more likely to reproduce than ones with tusks?
6. Insect species can develop resistance quickly because they have short ______.
7. Survival is only a part of natural selection. The other part takes place when organisms ______.
8. The formation of a new species
9. Changes in response to environment
10. Loss of ability to interbreed
11. Moving apart of populations
12. When a portion of a population becomes isolated, ______often begins.
13. Through adaptation, members of separated groups may develop different ______.
14. When members of related groups can no longer interbreed, they have become members of different ______.
Chapter 4; Section 1; Pages 84-88
1. What are chromosomes made of?
2. What is the name of the material that determines inherited characteristics?
3. The subunits of DNA are called
4. What are 3 things a nucleotide is made of?
5. What are the 4 bases of a nucleotide?
6. According to Chargaff’s rule, the amount of ______always equals the amount of thymine.
7. Rosalind Franklin used a process known as ______to make images of DNA molecules.
8. What shape did Franklin’s image show?
9. What did James Watson and Francis Crick’s model of DNA look like?
10. The twisted ladder shape of DNA is called a ______.
11. What are the rungs of the ladder made of?
12. Both sides of the DNA molecule are ______, binding only to their match.