Evolution Evidence and Mechanisms

A few deer wander out of their native woods into a completely new park where no deer had ever been before. They go on to create an entirely new population.

• Genetic Drift

• Natural Selection

• Non-random mating

• Mutation

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Which of the following is true?

• Gene pool frequencies do not change as a result of migration in or out of a population.

• Gene flow occurs only as a result of isolation of a small population.

• Gene flow can cause new alleles to enter a population's gene pool.

• Gene flow is due the the selection of the most favorable traits.

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The opossum and kangaroo both incubate their young in a pouch. This provides evidence that they---

• are descended from a common ancestor

• Have very similar skeletal structures

• belong to the same species

• must range great distances to eat

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According to this data, the unknown bacterial species is most closely related to: 

• Species I

• Species II

• Species III

• Species IV

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The fossil record help scientists

• better understand the kinds of organisms that lived in the past

• better understand how the environment has changed over time

• better understand how organisms have evolved over time

• all of the above

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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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Why is the mouse population changing over time?

• The light mice can reproduce more successfully than the dark mice

• The hawks eat more dark mice than light mice because the dark mice taste better

• The hawks eat more light mice than dark mice because they can see the light mice more easily

• The hawks eat more dark mice than light mice because they can see the dark mice more easily

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Which of the following is NOT part of the that mechanisms of natural selection?

• Organisms produce more offspring than can survive.

• Disease and natural disaster will limit population growth.

• Species today descended with modifications from ancestral species.

• Organisms with advantages will survive and reproduce.

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Where do adaptations come from?

• The individual organism decides to adapt

• Mutations that give an organism an advantage in its environment

• Genetic recombination during meiosis

• Both mutations and genetic recombination are sources of adaptation

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A population of salamanders, 50% of whom were spotted, decreased from 500 to only 100 in just a few months when a drought dried up much of the lake they inhabit. The remaining population had a much higher frequency of spotted than non-spotted salamanders compared with the original population. The most likely cause for this change is -- 

• Natural Selection

• Gene Flow

• Mutation

• Genetic Drift

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