PRELIM EXAM IN GEN. BIO. 2

1. Which of the following shows that Genetic change in a population through multiple generations?

• phenotype

• evolution

• heredity

• mitosis

2. If you were at a historical site, and you found a case with a book marked "authors original copy" and the book was called On the Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection you would be in the home of _____________.

• Alfred Russel Wallace

• Charles Darwin

• George Buffon

• Jean Lamarck

3. The relatively short-term changes in allele frequencies with in a species or population is _______.

• uniformitarianism

• artificial selection

• natural selection

• microevolution

4. Is similarities between two structures in different organisms reflect common ancestry, these structures are ________.

• homologous

• analogous

• homeotic

• vesatigial

5. The wings of a bat and a bird are example of _________.

• homologous structure

• analogous structure

• homeotic structures

• vestigial structures

6. What observations did Darwin make about finches in the Galapagos islands?

• A. Various species of finches lived on just one of the islands.

• B. Different species of finches lived on different islands.

• The same species of finches lived on different islands.

• Identical species of finches lived in South America.

7. It is the process in which humans breed organisms for certain traits.

• Inheritance of acquired characteristics.

• Descent without modification

• Artificial selection

• Natural selection

8. Which of the following does not provide evidence for evolution?

• Comparative anatomy

• Biochemical processes

• Cytology

• Fitness

9. Which concept was not included in Darwin's theory of natural selection?

• Overproduction

• Punctuated equilibrium

• Struggle for existence

• Survival of the fittest

10. Darwin's theory pf evolution is based on the concept of _______.

• natural selection

• use and disuse

• hybridization

• mutation