Honors Biology Evolution

Base your answer(s) to the following question(s) on the diagram below and on your knowledge of biology.
Which two finches would compete the least for food?

• small ground finch and large ground finch 

• large ground finch and sharp-billed ground finch 

• small tree finch and medium ground finch 

• vegetarian finch and small ground finch 

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Base your answer(s) to the following question(s) on the diagram below and your knowledge of biology.  Which species of finch has an edge-crushing bill that can also probe into plants for food? 

• cactus finch 

• sharp-billed ground finch 

• warbler finch 

• large ground finch 

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Base your answer(s) to the following question(s) on the diagram below that shows variations in the beaks of finches in the Galapagos Islands and on your knowledge of biology. 
The diversity of species seen on the Galapagos Islands is mostly due to 

• gene manipulation by scientists 

• gene changes resulting from mitotic cell division 

• natural selection 

• selective breeding 

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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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Inherited trait that helps an organism survive is a(n) __________.

• Fossil

• Adaptation

• Ancestor

• Natural selection

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When an organism completely dies out, it is called.....

• Adaption

• Extinction

• Fossilization

• Mutation

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Mistakes or changes that occur int he DNA sequence are called....

• adatations

• Darwinism

• mutations

• natural selection

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Why could the same species of moth be two different colors?

• Their color was based on their DNA. Sometimes a mutation would cause the moth to be born with a different color.

• Their color was caused by the environment. The soot from the factories would fuse with the moth's skin.

• Bacteria inside the moth's stomach would sometimes give the moth stomach the ability of the moth to have "active camouflouge." This allowed the moths to change their color at will.

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A characteristic or trait that helps an organism survive in its environment is a/an ​ ​ (a)  

• adaptation

• skill

• variation

• natural instinct

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p + q = 1. If p represents the dominant allele frequency, what would q represent?

• the homozygous dominant genotype frequency

• the recessive allele frequency

• the total amount of alleles in the population

• a measure of fitness in the population