Evolution Quiz

What is another name for natural selection?

• survival of the smartest
• survival of the fastest
• survival of the biggest
• survival of the fittest

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What is the study of organisms at the early stages of development?

• DNA studies
• embryology 
• extinction
• fossil record

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Predict which moth would increase in population

• light 
• dark

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The cause of artificial selection is…

• The environment
• Humans
• Mutation
• Gene Flow

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Darwin wrote that organisms with traits that are best suited to the environment will ________________

• increase in number

• become extinct

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Which of the following is NOT an example of natural selection? 

• People selectively breeding hamsters.
• Insect populations developing resistance to certain pesticides.
• Bacteria becoming resistant to antibiotics.
• Male birds of certain species developing colorful feathers to attract female mates.

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Common ancestry can be shown through the following, called:

• Fossils

• Homologous structures

• Comparative embyrology

• Analogous structures

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The forelimbs of penguin, alligator, bat, human are which of the following?

• homologous structures
• vestigial structures

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Two organisms that are closely related would have

• very similar DNA sequence
• exactly the same DNA sequences
• no proteins in common
• completely different DNA sequence

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The hip bones in a whale are examples of

• homologous structures
• analogous structures
• fossils
• vestigal structures

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