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SCIENCE 10 Q3 LESSON 6
EVIDENCE OF EVOLUTION
Written Work 1
A. Write the letter of the best answer on your sheet of paper.
1. Where can most fossils be found?
A. Black soil
B. Granite rock
C. Lava flows
D. Sedimentary rock
2. Which of the statements best describes the Theory of Natural Selection?
A. Acquired characteristics of parents can be passed on to offspring.
B. Organisms develop desirable structures to survive in a given environment.
C. Organs that are not used may disappear, while organs that are constantly
utilized may develop.
D. In nature, the organisms with desirable characteristics may survive, while those with weaker traits
may not.
3. Natural selection states that ______________________.
A. nature selects the variations within a species that are most useful for
survival.
B. fitness is an organism's ability to survive and produce fertile offspring.
C. a change in a species occurs over time
D. all of the above
4. This theory emphasizes that organisms develop specialized characteristics by the use or disuse of
organs.
A. theory of evolution
C. theory of natural selection
B. theory of acquired characteristics
D. theory of use and disuse
5. He believed that natural selection favored the survival of giraffes with longer necks to feed themselves
on taller trees that were available.
A. Jean Baptiste Lamarck
C. Charles Darwin
B. Alfred Wegener
D. Both Lamarck and Darwin
B. Directions: Read each statement involving evidence of evolution. Choose the words from the WORD
BANK to identify the kind of evidence of evolution stated below. Write your answer before each
number.
Fossils records
Comparative anatomy
Biochemical information
______________ 1. The wings of a bird and a butterfly have different structures.
______________ 2. Humans and chimpanzees have no number of differences in
amino acids.
______________ 3. There were dinosaur bones discovered in the desert.
______________ 4. The human arm and alligator forelimb have similar structures.
______________ 5. Humans and horses have 12 differences in amino acid
C. Direction: Write in the space provided H if
the structures below are homologous and A if
they are analogous.
Performance Task
Directions: Complete the table below. Compare the amino acid sequence of humans with the amino acid
sequence of other animal species then answer the questions below.
Human vs Organism
Human
Number of Similar Amino
Acid Positions
Bear
Chimpanzee
Gibbon
Gorilla
Monkey
Mouse
Shrew
Guide Questions:
1. Which primate(s) is/are most closely related to the human being?
2. Which animal appears to be the least related to humans?
3. Which of the other species show close relationships?
Number of Different
Amino Acid Positions
0
