Unit 8 Quiz Practice

This scientist came up with the idea of natural selection.

• Jean Baptiste Lamarck
• Gregor Mendel
• Charles Darwin
• Thomas Malthus

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Which of the following is a feature that allows an organism to better survive in its environment?

• Fossil
• Adaptation
• Ancestor
• Natural selection

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Which of the following is the measure of an organism's ability to survive and reproduce?

• Fitness

• Adaptation
• Ancestor
• Natural selection

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Which of the following changes the fitness of organisms?

• Fitness

• Adaptation
• Selection Pressures

• Natural selection

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2. Which of the following statements is TRUE about the theory of evolution?

• It is a theory that is not supported by evidence-based research.

• It cannot be used to explain how favored traits become more common in a species.

• It accounts for the diversity of organisms found on Earth.

• It explains how individual organisms in a population are able to evolve.

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Survival of the fittest or when favorable adaptations reproduce faster is called what?

• Evolution
• Adaptation
• Natural selection
• Fossilization

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Structures with the same parts have different functions; suggests that organisms share a common ancestry

• vestigial structures
• homologous structures
• adaptive radiation
• fossil

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What is embryology?

• the age of organisms
• the oldest stage of development
• the life span of an organism
• the earliest growth stage of development

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The environment around Manchester, England, changed during the Industrial Revolution.  How did this change affect peppered moths living in the area?

• Natural selection favored moths with dark wings because predators could not see them on the soot-colored trees.
• Natural selection favored moths with white wings that were easy for predators to see.
• Natural selection favored moths with white wings because predators could not see them on the soot-colored trees.
• Natural selection caused moths with white wings to become extinct.

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Comparing human hemoglobin of chimpanzees, horses, kangaroos, and chickens, reveal that humans have the fewest amino acid differences with 

• Kangaroos
• Horses
• chickens
• chimpanzees

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