EXAM #4 KAPLAN REVIEW QUIZ

_______________ is heritable change in one or more characteristics of a population from one generation to the next

• Speciation

• Ecological transition

• Evolution

• Biodiversity

All members of the same species that occupy the same geographical location

• cohort

• population

• community

• ecosystem

Sexually reproducing species reproduce to make

• viable but not fertile offspring

• fertile but not viable offspring

• both fertile and viable offspring

• neither fertile and viable offspring

Natural selection favors certain traits related to _____________ and _______________ success

• survival, metabolic

• competitive, reproductive

• protective, homeostatic

• survival, reproductive

The diversity and bizarre array of species can be explained in the context of _________________

• biodiversity

• evolution

• natural selection

• homology

____________ show(s) successive evolutionary change

• Biogeography

• Endemic species

• Fossils

• Directionality

When 2 species from different lineages independently evolve similar characteristics because they occupy similar physical territories

• developmental evolution

• genetic homology

• convergent evolution

• anatomical homology

This picture is an example of

• developmental homology

• anatomical homology

• genetic homology

• orthogenic homology

All of the alleles for every gene in a population

• allelic mechanism

• genotype

• trait

• gene pool

____________ involves changes in allele and genotype frequencies from one generation to the next

• Microevolution

• Macroevolution