Exam 14: How Biological Diversity Evolves

Of the following taxonomic levels, species found within the same ________ are the most closely related.

When two frog species, Rana pipiens and Rana sylvatica, mate, the offspring die early in embryonic development. This is an example of ________.

The tailbone of a human ________ to the tail of a monkey.

Plate tectonics has been responsible for instances of all of the following EXCEPT ________.

Human impacts on natural environments have enabled scientists to use these habitats as natural laboratories for studying evolutionary adaptation. Which is an EXCEPTION to these natural laboratories currently being used by scientists?

The type of reproductive barrier that occurs when reproductive structures of different species are physically incompatible is referred to as ________.

An ancestral species and all its evolutionary descendants define a(n)________.