Evolution Test Review (CP)

An extreme phenotype is favored causing the alleles to shift toward that phenotype

• Disruptive Selection
• Directional  Selection
• Stabilizing Selection
• Artificial Selection

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Natural selection can best be defined as the _____.

• survival of the biggest and strongest in a population
• survival and reproduction of those in the largest area
• elimination of the smallest organism by the biggest
• survival and reproduction of those that are best adapted

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Which of the three graphs shows stabilizing selection? The original population is shown with a solid line.

• A
• B
• C

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Which of the three graphs shows disruptive selection? The original population is shown with a solid line

• A
• B
• C

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If finches with large beaks and finches with small beaks increase in a population while finches with average sized beaks decreases, which pattern of natural selection has occurred?

• Directional selection
• Disruptive selection 
• Stabilizing selection

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What is the correct explanation for what is happening in this graph?

• There are a lot of average-sized beaks
• There are no beaks
• There are a lot of small beaks only
• There are a lot of small and large beaks, but not average-sized ones

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Scientists find that most feral cats in a neighborhood have whiskers about 12 cm long. After about 15 generations of stabilizing selection, what would you expect to see?

• even more cats with 12 cm long whiskers
• most cats with less than 12 cm long whiskers
• most cats with more than 12 cm long whiskers
• most cats with whiskers either less than or more than 12 cm long, very few with whiskers 12 cms 

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Human babies don't do well if they are born too small. If they are too big complications can occur during birth. Baby size should then be selected for by which method?

• stabilizing
• directional
• disruptive
• Beyonce is having twins

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What type of selection is depicted in the picture? 

• stabilizing 
• directional 
• disruptive 
• the answer is not here

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Organisms with the most beneficial traits will survive and reproduce.  This is commonly known as

• DNA
• variations.
• fittness. 
• ecosystems.

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