Evolution Reviewer

What are the DNA complementary bases of the following: ATC-GTG-CCC?

• AUG-CAC-GGG

• AUG-TAT-GGG

• TAG-CAC-GGG

• TAG-TAT-GGG

What do you call the change in a gene due to damage or being copied incorrectly?

• evolution

• meiosis

• mutation

• segregation

What is the collective term for “agents of mutations”?

• GMO’s

• mutagens

• mutants

• transgenic

Which of the following is NOT a mutagen?

• alcohol and drugs

• cigarette smoke

• radiation

• vitamins

The original strand of DNA looks like this ACGTCTCGA, the mutated strand looks like this ACGTCTACGA. What type of mutation is this?

• deletion

• frameshift mutation

• insertion

• nonsense mutation

What do you call the point mutation that changes a codon specifying an amino acid into a stop codon?

• deletion mutation

• frameshift mutation

• missense mutation

• nonsense mutation

Changing the codon from AGC to AGA represents a ____ mutation

• deletion

• frameshift

• missense

• nonsense

Which of the following describes a frameshift mutation?

• It introduces a section of amino acids not normally found

• It joins two different proteins

• It removes part of the protein

• It replaces one amino acid with another

Which of the following causes of evolution states that sexual selection is not merely by chance?

• Non-random mating

• Genetic Drift

• Gene Flow

• Mutation

What is genetic drift?

• The formation of new species

• A change in gene pool due to chance alone.

• Any change in the structure of chromosomes and gene composition.

• The migration of individuals from one population to another.