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This is an on-line version of the same Content Review questions included at the end of the chapter in your textbook. Use this version to quickly and easily submit your work to your instructor or teaching assistant.

1. How can Darwinian fitness be estimated?

2. What makes a trait "vestigial"?

3. What is an adaptation?

4. Heritability quantifies the proportion of variation in a population that is due to what?

5. What does descent with modification refer to?

6. Why are homologous traits similar?

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1.	How can Darwinian fitness be estimated?



2.	What makes a trait "vestigial"?



3.	What is an adaptation?



4.	Heritability quantifies the proportion of variation in a population that is due to what?



5.	What does descent with modification refer to?



6.	Why are homologous traits similar?



Answer choices in this exercise are randomized and will appear in a different order each time the page is loaded.

Chapter 21: Darwinism and the Evidence for Evolution

Content Review