Evolution

What is an inherited characteristics that helps an organism to survive?

• adaptation

• trait

• homologous structure

• vestigial organs

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Charles Darwin created the Theory of Evolution due to ...

• multiple alleles

• acquired traits

• natural selection

• artificial selection

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What is the number of different life forms in an area called?

• biodiversity

• adaptation

• biogenesis

• diversification

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Which of the following was NOT one of Darwin's ideas about evolution?

• Most organisms produce more offspring than can survive

• The environment has predators and diseases to kill most offspring

• The organisms with the best adaptations survive to reproduce

• Asexual reproduction creates identical offspring

Which of the following states that a species can remain stable for a long period of time and then undergo rapid evolution in a short period of time?

• punctuated equilibrium

• gradualism

• natural selection

• biodiversity

Which of the following is NOT a source of variation in a species?

• mutations

• immigration

• emigration

• asexual reproduction

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What is the formation of a new species called?

• gradualism

• speciation

• biodiversity

• classification

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Separating a population by a physical barrier is called

• geographical isolation

• reproductive isolation

• temporal isolation

• barrier isolation

The courtship display of the albatross is an example of

• geographic isolation

• reproductive isolation

• temporal isolation

• polyploidy

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Having one ancestral species evolve into several different species is an example of

• geographic isolation

• adaptive radiation

• reproductive isolation

• biodiversity

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