Test Review Feb

Two populations are separated by geographical barriers such as rivers or mountains

• Reproductive Isolation
• Geographic Isolation
• Behavioral Isolation
• Temporal Isolation

An organism's appearance or other observable characteristics:

• phenotype
• recessive
• genotype
• dominant

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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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Characteristics that allow a population to become better suited to its environment

• accommodation
• adaptation
• variation
• selection

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Individuals that survive long enough to reproduce have a high level of

• fitness
• adaptation
• hormones
• stamina

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Which of the following is evidence for evolution?

• vestigial structures
• Embryology
• homologous structures
• all of these

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Which organisms are most likely to survive?

• the best adapted
• the fastest
• the strongest
• the most domesticated (tamed)

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Some lizards have different size legs.  Lizards with longer legs are able to better access food. Over time, lizards with short legs became less common.
What is the successful adaptation?

• Lizards
• Long legs
• Food
• Leg sizes

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Mutations are a change in what?

• DNA
• tRNA
• genotype
• phenotype

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Which of the following is REQUIRED for the process of natural selection to occur?

• Members of the same species must compete with one another.
• Members of different species must compete with one another.
• There must be a sudden environmental change.
• Traits must be inherited from one generation to the next.

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