Evolution and Natural Selection Quiz

What is natural selection?

• The process by which organisms with favorable traits survive and reproduce at a higher rate.

• The process by which organisms with any traits survive and reproduce at an equal rate.

• The process by which organisms with any traits survive and reproduce at a lower rate.

• The process by which organisms with unfavorable traits survive and reproduce at a higher rate.

What is a species?

• A group of different organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring.

• A group of similar organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring.

• A group of different organisms incapable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring.

• A group of similar organisms incapable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring.

What is a population?

• An organism of different species that live in different places at the same time.

• An organism of the same species that live in different places at the same time.

• An organism of different species that live in the same place at the same time.

• An organism of the same species that live in the same place at the same time.

What factors would cause a population to change?

• Predation, disease, genetic drift, and environmental change.

• Mutation, adaptation, genetic diversity, and natural selection.

• Cooperation, extinction, survival of the weakest, and migration.

• Competition, speciation, survival of the fittest, and reproduction.

What is speciation?

• The formation of new species, the process occurs when individuals of different populations interbreed and produce infertile offspring.

• The formation of new species, the process occurs when individuals of different populations interbreed and produce fertile offspring.

• The formation of new species, the process occurs when an individual of a population is able to continue interbreeding within the group.

• The formation of new species, the process occurs when an individual of a population is unable to continue interbreeding within the group.

What are the elements of natural selection?

• Adaptation, variations, competition, and inheritance.

• Predation, disease, migration, and environmental change.

• Mutation, genetic diversity, survival of the fittest, and reproductive isolation.

• Homologous structures, fossils, survival of the weakest, and genetic drift.

What are favorable traits (adaptations)?

• Characteristics or traits that are only beneficial for a short period of time.

• Characteristics or traits that have no effect on an organism's survival and reproduction.

• Characteristics or traits that hinder an organism from surviving and reproducing in its environment.

• Characteristics or traits that help an organism survive and reproduce in its environment.

What is the effect of selective breeding on diversity?

• Decrease genetic diversity

• No effect on genetic diversity

• Increase genetic diversity

• Maintain genetic diversity

A process by which a population becomes better suited to its environment by increasing the frequencies of alleles that provide benefits to survival and reproduction.

• Embryological Structures (estructuras embrionarias)

• Artificial Selection (selección artificial)

• Common Ancestry 

  (ascendencia común)

  
  

• Adaptation (adaptación)

A limb, organ, or other body part that is similar in position and organization to other organisms, but has a different function.

• Genetic Variation (variación genética)

• Embryological Structures (estructuras embrionarias)

• Common Ancestry (ascendencia común)

• Homologous Structures (estructuras homólogas)