Evolution & Speciation

When human being make the choice to breed certain organisms to select for a given traits.

• Natural Selection

• Artificial Selection

• Sexual Selection

An owl swooping down and capturing an albino/white mouse from a nest leaving other more well blended mice behind is an example of...

• Natural Selection

• Artificial Selection

• Sexual Selection

Male blue footed boobie birds create complex dances in order to get the females to choose them to mate with. This behavior is essential for ........ to occur.

• Natural selection

• Artificial selection

• Sexual selection

This is a graph of a normal distribution pattern of phenotypes within a population? Which show a disruptive?

• None of these

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During the industrial revolution, air pollution turned the tree bark black from the soot. All of the birds now hunted down and killed all the white colored moths and all that remained were dark winged moths. What shift in distribution pattern would occur?

• Disruptive

• Stabilizing

• Directional

Make giant cuttlefish try to intimidate each other by

• making wicked body patterns and displays

• ignoring blending in with the environment

• engage in wrestling matches

• squirting out ink

• all of the above

Small male cuttlefish mate with females more successfully.

• True

• False

Male Giant Cuttlefish exchange semen/sperm via

• their arms/tentacles

• their penis

• thier eyes

• their backs

Giant Cuttlefish only have 1 mating season.

• True

• False

A change to the gene pool of a population is called.

• Speciation

• Natural selection

• Evolution

• Protein synthesis