The evolutionary history of a species or group of related species is known as __________ Group of answer choicesPhylogenySystemicNomenclatureCladistic

. _____________refers to how we place species and higher groups in the taxonomic hierarchy.   Group of answer choicesPhylogenyClassificationNomenclatureCladistics

A _________ group includes the most recent common ancestor of the group and all of its descendants Group of answer choicesparaphyleticmonophyleticNonepolyphyletic

At the time Darwin voyaged on the HMS Beagle, the popularly accepted theory in Western culture that explained the origin of Earth's plants and animals held that the various species ______________________.Group of answer choiceshad been created by divine intervention a few thousand years beforearose from a single species that had survived the biblical floodarose continually from non-living materials by spontaneous generationhad evolved from now-extinct organisms

Animals that possess homologous structures probably ____________________.Group of answer choicesare headed for extinctionhave increased genetic diversityby chance had similar mutations independently in the pastevolved from the same ancestor

Evolution is a change in a ______ over time. Group of answer choicespopulationorganismcommunitybiome