Quiz 5

3. inheritable traits that make organisms fit and can be passed down to the next generation
8. Charles Lyells book that Darwin studied
9. Darwin was training at this school to be an Anglican priest
10. the study of changes in animal behavior due to ecological pressures
11. structure that seems to have no function in an organism
12. the theory that blends Mendelian genetics with Darwin's natural selection
13. process where organisms with variations that increase their fitness are more likely to pass along those traits to the next generation
14. Embryologists study ___ which code for proteins that determine how an embryo will take shape

1. the theory that all living things come from common ancestors and change with each generation
2. the slow, gradual change in organisms from one kind to another
4. groups of organisms that look the same and have the same structure
5. the study of similarities and differences in anatomy of different species
6. the theory that the changes in the earth's crust have resulted from the action of continuous and uniform processes
7. organs that are similar in different organisms and are thought to show evolutionary relationships