Honors Biology Evolution Quiz 2

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

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

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A situation in which the better adapted organisms survive to pass traits along to offspring best describes the concept of _______ _______.

• Homologous Selection

• Natural Selection

• Extinction

• Artifical Selection

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Mutations are a change in what?

• DNA

• tRNA

• mRNA

• Mutations don't exist

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Structures with the same parts have different functions; suggests that organisms share a common ancestry

• vestigial structures
• homologous structures
• adaptive radiation
• fossil

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Two organisms that are closely related would have

• very similar DNA sequence
• exactly the same DNA sequences
• no proteins in common
• completely different DNA sequence

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Which of the following are examples of evidence for evolution?

• Fossils and Cellular Structure
• Biological Structures 
• Genetics/DNA
• All of the Above

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Change over time is

• evolution
• generation
• growth
• biogenesis

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Natural selection is

• survival of the fittest
• humans change
• two species are the same
• more animals survive

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In regard to the definition of biological evolution: POPULATIONS change over time; INDIVIDUALS do not.

• TRUE

• FALSE

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Jean Baptiste de Lamarck proposed two theories: the theory of disuse, and the theory of

• acquired characteristics

• evolution

• gravity

• natural selection