Anthropocene and Evolution Quiz

What is the Anthropocene epoch?

• An epoch of time that is measured by human advancements

• The time on Earth when humans have become the dominant influence on Earth

• The time on Earth when humans were first evolving

• A time in history when evolutionary rates were higher than normal

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What are some anthropogenic changes?

• Evolution

• Introduction of non-native species

• Pollution

• Education

• Climate change

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What are anthropogenic changes responsible for?

• New and rapid evolutionary changes

• A slowing of human evolution

• A decline in beneficial genetic mutations

• Changing of the seasons

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What is artificial selection?

• An AI powered computer that is able to predict evolutionary changes

• Breeding of desirable traits to pass to the offspring

• A specific selection pressure that caused humans to evolve independently

• The form of natural selection that happens on a microscopic level

Any wild animal in human care is considered a domestic animal.

• True

• False

What kind of selection pressure would cause elephants to lose or grow smaller tusks?

• Urbanization of wild areas resulting in tuskless elephants that can survive better in a city setting

• Overexploitation of elephant tusks resulting in tuskless elephants that are not hunted and survive

• Antibiotic resistance that causes a dwarfing of elephant populations that have smaller tusks

• Pesticides that enter food webs causing random mutations in all wild animal species

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What kind of selection pressure would cause a local dove population to develop larger beaks?

• Urbanization that causes an enlargement of all animals living within a city

• Artificial selection where bird competitions are dominated by birds with the biggest beak

• Climate change has made the Earth hotter and birds sweat through their beak

• Urbanization has human bird feeders that use seeds that are larger than the native seed diet

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What kind of selection pressure would cause different species to leave their native habitat in search of a new one?

• Domestication is a looming threat that all wild species will try to avoid at all costs

• Pesticides are used to control wild vegetation that can eventually poison all native species

• Antibiotic resistance that causes a major outbreak of contagious diseases

• Climate change is directly changing the environments that different species are specifically adapted to

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What kind of selection pressures could result in a national shortage of lettuce in all grocery stores?

• Antibiotic resistance would change the growing season of any plants that used that particular medication

• Pesticide resistance that develops within a lettuce plant virus could infect all farms with the same type of lettuce

• Herbicide resistance could result in single species of apple that is able to outcompete all others

• Domestication of any plant species will eventually cause an extinction of that particular species

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What is the origin of antibiotic medications?

• Antibiotics were developed from the mutations within the human genome

• Scientists developed antibiotics from the first cell

• Humans have isolated antibiotics from fungi that use it against competing bacteria

• All medications used by humans were developed through radiation