Evolution Biology

The trees these moths used to live on were white, but have been covered in soot from coal factories. Which moth will be more successful in this environment?

• Dark moth

• Light moth

• Both will be equally successful

• Neither will be successful

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Change over time

• Natural Selection

• Selective Breeding

• Homeostasis

• Evolution

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What does Darwin's theory of evolution suggest?

• species change over time

• extinct species are not related to living species

• different species can interbreed

• animals that look alike are most closely related

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Why were the beaks on Darwin's finches so Important?

• They showed the finches always existed as Darwin found them.

• They showed that the finches could mutate their beaks whenever they want.

• They showed variability in the finches species. All finches were equally adaptable to all islands.

• They show that the finches adapted to their environments. Their beak shape matched the food available on each island.

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Two organisms that are closely related would have

• very similar DNA sequence

• exactly the same DNA sequences

• no proteins in common

• completely different DNA sequence

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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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What most likely caused the finches on the Galapagos Islands to have beaks that were differnt from the finches living on the South American mainland?

• They were different types of food available on the island.

• The finches on the islands had to drink salt water.

• There were different types of predators living on the island.

• The finches on the mainland built different types of nests.

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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 trait is an acquired phenotype.

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Which BEST helps a population from going extinct?

• low mutation rate

• small population

• genetic variation

• similar physical features

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Where the better adapted organisms survive to pass traits along to offspring.

• Evolution

• Natural Selection

• Extinction

• Artifical Selection

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