Evolution Review

Natural selection means

• acquiring characteristics

• passing on immunity

• the environment favors certain traits that increase in population

• genetic drifting

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Traits that are an advantage to a species tend have a high survival value (fitness), this means they...

• cannot be determined

• stay the same in the population

• decrease in the population

• increase in the population

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What structures are similar in structure or function & show evolutionary descent?

• Homologous Structures

• Acquired Characteristics

• Fossil Record

• Convergent Evolution

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What is NOT an evidence for the theory of evolution?

• Acquired Characteristics

• Vestigial Structures

• Similarities in DNA

• Fossil Record

What gas was absent in earth's early atmosphere?

• hydrogen

• ammonia

• methane

• oxygen

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According to the cellular theory of evolution, when did Eukaryotic cells evolve?

• First

• Second

• Third

• Fourth

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The use of pesticides on crops has been a practice for many years.What has been the greatest effect of natural selection through the use of pesticides on certain insect populations?

• Natural selection has been altered because the predators & prey are killed.

• The rate of selection is increased because the pesticides do not kill the insects that are naturally resistant to it.

• The rate of selection has decreased because the pesticides kill only young insects.

• The pesticides have altered natural selection by causing the insect DNA to spontaneously mutate.

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A large population of cockroaches was sprayed with an insecticide. A few of the cockroaches survived and produced a population of cockroaches that was resistant to this spray. What can best be inferred from this example?

• The species will adapt no matter what the environment.

• The environment has no effect on the survival of an organism.

• Insecticides cause mutations that are passed on to the next generation.

• Individuals with favorable variations survive and reproduce.

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In which populations does genetic drift most often occur?

• In terrestrial populations

• In marine populations

• In large populations

• In small populations

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Which evidence for the theory of evolution shows change in a species over a long period of time?

• Fossil Record

• Convergent Evolution

• Embryology

• DNA Similarities

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