Module 14 Quiz

Charles Darwin traveled aboard the HMS Beagle, a ship whose primary mission was to _______?

• study evolution

• survey the coast of South America

• go to the Galapagos Islands

• go fishing

Darwin observed that finches in the Galapagos Islands resembled birds on the mainland. He concluded the mainland birds had moved to the islands, then underwent changes there.

• True

• False

Darwin would have called the breeding of larger tomato plants by farmers __.

• natural selection

• artificial selection

• crop yield amplification

• crop rotation

Darwin hypothesized that nature selects for traits also. Which of the following is not one of the four principles that explain how traits of a population change over time?

• Populations have variation

• Populations can cross breed for variation advantages

• Some variations are inherited

• Some organisms have more offspring than can survive

• Variations that result in reproductive success are the most important

Artificial selection occurs when human select organisms for desirable traits. Humans have done this with all but the following:

• pigeons

• food crops

• llamas of South America

• dogs

Darwin considered the appearance of the modern armadillo and the fossil glyptodont to be evidence for his theory of evolution by natural selection.

• True

• False

• Who is Darwin?

Studying the structures of organisms during early stages of development is called _______.

Humans, horses, bats, porpoises and cats have similar, homologous structures. This evidence for evolution is called comparative ______?

Wisdom teeth in humans, emu wings, and the human tailbone are evidence for evolution referred to as ______ structures.

• obsolete

• erroneous

• vestigial

• unnecessary

Organisms that share the same metabolic molecules often share the same ancestors.

• True

• False