Evolution Test Review (Yates)

What is known as an inherited traits that increases your chance of survival and reproduction in a specific environment?

• homologous structure

• vestigial organ

• adaptation

• speciation

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What causes variation in a population?

• inbreeding

• emigration

• mutations

• genetic drift

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What is a measurement of an organism's ability to survive and reproduce?

• adaptation

• fitness

• symbiotic relationship

• ecological niche

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A population of moths had a mix of white and black. After the Industrial Revolution, black moths became more common. How were the moths affected by natural selection?

• Tree trunks turned lacks so the moths decided to change color.

• The trees were originally black but turned to brown.

• The moths changed color due to the acquired traits.

• Some moths were black due to a mutation, and when the tree trunks turned black, most of population became mostly black.

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What role do mutations play in natural selection?

• Provide variation and the environment selections for or against the adaptations

• Mutations are always harmful

• All mutations are passed on to offspring

• Mutations are always fatal

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Walking sticks can be either be striped or not striped. In one area, the dominant vegetation has needle-like leaves that resemble stripes. What will happen to the walking sticks?

• Those without stripes will reproduce faster.

• Those with stripes will be able to camouflage and become more common.

• They will become spotted.

• They will live on a rare plant species.

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A parasitic fly follows the sound of cricket wings. They deposit their larvae into the cricket causing them to die. A mutation in some crickets that changes their wing structure to make them silent. The crickets with the silent wings are found among crickets with normal wings. What is selecting for the silent wings?

• crickets

• cricket wings

• parasitic fly

• genetic mutation

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Black widows produce a venom that is a potent neurotoxin that paralyzes its prey when injected.

• Structural adaptation

• Behavioral adaptation

• Physiological adaptation

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The two male elephant seals fight each other for the right to mate with the females.

• Structural adaptation

• Behavioral adaptation

• Physiological adaptation

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The shark’s teeth are sharp and pointy so they can better catch and trap small fish.

• Structural adaptation

• Behavioral adaptation

• Physiological adaptation