Evolution and Classification

Which of these is an example of natural selection?

• The largest animal in a population will have more opportunities for reproduction.
• Several species of organisms work together so that they all succeed.
• One species takes all the resources in an environment leaving none for others.
• Organism that are best suited to an environment tend to survive and reproduce more often.

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Evolution works by 

• individuals changing to suit their environment
• Individuals learned new traits and pass them on
• sudden change in the environment cause a species change 
• small changes pass down through many generations

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Define homologous structures.

• Structures that appear the same, but have different ancestral origins.
• Structures that appear the different, but have the same ancestral origins.
• Any two body parts from the same organism
• Parts that no longer appear to have a function

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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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A yellow morph and green morph of an insect lives in the rainforest canopy. You would expect:

• the green population to increase and the yellow to decrease

• both populations should stay the same

• both populations will increase

• the green population to decrease and the yellow to increaseThis is a wrong answer

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What word describes a trait that helps an organism survive in its environment?

• natural selection

• mutation

• camouflage

• adaptation

What kingdom is eukaryotic, multi-celled, and photosynthetic?

• animal

• plant

• protist

• fungi

What kingdom includes eukaryotic, single-celled, and autotrophic and heterotrophic?

• Plant

• Animal

• Protist

• Fungi

An illustration and a dichotomous key are given. What is the correct classification for this organism?

• Class Insecta
• Order Amblygygi
• Order Araneae
• Order Scorpiones

Which leaf is shown in the drawing?

• Magnolia

• Redbud

• Sweetgum

• None of the above