AP Bio Ch 15 Mechanisms of Evolution

Logan was born with unique abilities for quick healing and awesome claws that stick out of his fingers.

• Gene flow
• Natural Selection
• Mutation
• Genetic Drift

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Survival of the Fittest and Evolution were proposed by what scientist?

• Charles Darwin
• Albert Einstein
• Steven Hawking
• Isaac Newton

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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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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 type of natural selection is this?

• Disruptive Selection
• Directional Selection
• Stabilizing Selection
• Sexy Selection

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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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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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___ are restposible for the variations in traits that allows evolution to occur.

• adaptations

• fossils

• similarities

• proteins

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Which of these is NOT one of Darwin's 4 principles of NS?

• Variations exist in populations.

• DNA mutations cause variations.

• Some variations are advantageous.

• More offspring are produced than can survive.

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In natural selection, the selective agent is the

• humans
• mutations
• breeders
• environment

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