Evolution QUIZ Review!

What was the name of the famous ship which transported Darwin around the globe on his naturalist studies?

• HMS Badger

• HMS Beagle

• HMS Titanic

• HMS Finch

What type of organism gave Darwin the aha! moment that revealed the idea of natural selection?

• sloth

• iguana

• finch

• whale

Which of the scientists below did NOT influence Darwin's Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection?

• Alfred Russel Wallace

• James Watson

• Jean Baptiste Lamarck

• Thomas Malthus

An inherited trait which increases the chance of survival/reproduction in a population is ...

• gradualism

• natural selection

• mutation

• adaptation

Darwin and Lamarck agreed that changes in a population are linked to ...

• genetics

• environmental conditions

• use or disuse of physical features

• acquired characteristics

Natural selection causes the frequency of advantageous alleles to ...

• increase in a population over time

• decrease in a population over time

• remain constant in a population over time

• show large variation in a population

What is the definition of "gradualism"?

• individuals gradually becoming more adapted to their environment over their lifetime

• slow and steady change of a species over time

• variation in traits among members of the same species

• rapid change of a species over time

What evolution term is shown?

• speciation

• vestigial structures

• homologous structures

• subspecies

Many organisms possess parts that were used by a common ancestor but are no longer useful or helpful. An example is the leg bone found in the whale skeleton. What evolution term is being described?

• homologous structures

• vestigial trait

• divergence

• punctuated equilibrium

How do we know if 2 individuals are considered to be of the same species?

• their DNA is at least 99% identical

• they live together in the same population

• they are able to mate and produce viable offspring

• they descended from a recent common ancestor