What was the ship that Charles Darwin sailed on?

• The HMS Tiger

• HMS Donkey

• The Nautilus

• The HMS Beagle

Who developed the binomial nomenclature system?

• Charles Darwin

• Carolus Linnaeus

• Mark Antony

• D.B. Cooper

What is the definition of Biogeography?

• The study of the distribution of species and ecosystems in geographic space and through geographical time

• The study of gene dispersion over a specific geographical region

• The arrangement of populations on a continent

• The Dispersion of Multiple Species that are genetically related but do not breed

Who was the Naturalist alongside Charles Darwin that developed Natural Selection

• Alfred Darwin

• Alfred Wallace

• Charles Darwin

• Carolus Linneaus

Which of the following is not one of the four steps of Natural Selection?

• Members of a population have variations that are heritable

• More individuals are produced than can survive

• Traits are only passed during generational skip

• Those with the best variations are more likely to survive and reproduce  -  the term FITNESS is used to describe these traits.

Which of these IS a consequence of natural selection?

• The result of natural selection never reduces the number of individuals within a population

• An increasing proportion of individuals in succeeding generations will not have the adaptive characteristics

• The result of natural selection always reduces the number of individuals within a population

• An increasing proportion of individuals in succeeding generations will have the adaptive characteristics

The change of allele frequencies , or a change in the gene pool of a population

• Natural Selection

• Acquired traits

• Evolution

• Gene pool

How does natural selection explain the finches on the Galapagos?

When observing the stickleback... what characteristics of the fish were observed as evidence for natural selection?

• Armor and tail fin

• Armor and Spines

• Spines and eye size

• Spines and genetic mutations

Measures an organism's reproductive success but does not necessarily improve strength