Microevolution

Evolution at a gene level that occurs over a long period of time

• Macroevolution

• Microevolution

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Small populations are more prone to genetic drift than large populations.

• True

• False

A yellow morph and green morph of an insect lives in the rainforest canopy. You would expect:

• the green population to increase and the yellow to decrease

• both populations should stay the same

• both populations will increase

• the green population to decrease and the yellow to increaseThis is a wrong answer

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Why are advantageous traits more likely to be passed onto offspring?

• Because they are more likely to survive and reproduce.

• Because they come from dominant alleles.

• Because they come from recessive alleles.

• Because the organism knew it needed that trait, survives, and passes it on.

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A forest fire ignites in the Sam Houston State Forest and kills many members of a population of pigmy rattlesnakes.

• Gene Flow

• Genetic Drift

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The country of Sweden is known for having people with blonde hair and blue eyes. One day a family moves from Sweden to India where dark hair and dark eyes are very common. A female from Sweden marries a male from India and their offspring now have blonde hair and blue eyed traits.

• Natural Selection

• Mutation

• Non-Random Mating

• Gene Flow

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A population of birds with various size beaks eats seeds. Small seeds can be eaten by birds with small beaks. Larger, thicker seeds can only be eaten by birds with larger, thicker beaks. During a drought, only large thick seeds exist so only the large, thick-beaked birds survive.

• Stabilizing

• Directional

• Disruptive

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The graphs below show the changes in crab color at one beach. Which of the following is most likely to have caused the change in the distribution?

• A new predator arrived that preferred dark-tan crabs.

• A new predator arrived that preferred light-tan crabs.

• A change in beach color made medium-tan crabs the least visible to predators.

• A change in beach color made medium-tan crabs the most visible to predators.

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Which of the following best illustrates natural selection?

• An organism with favorable genetic variations will tend to survive and breed successfully.

• A population monopolizes all of the resources in its habitat, forcing other species to migrate.

• A community whose members work together utilizing all existing resources and migratory routes.

• The largest organisms in a species receive the only breeding opportunities.

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The finches of the Galapagos islands different in what way and for what reason?

• size of body, size of trees

• location on specific islands, amount of water

• coloration. types of predators

• beak shape, type of food available

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