Patterns and Processes of Evolution

What is the evolution of a species by gradual accumulation of small genetic changes over long periods?

• Zombie apocalypse

• Revolution

• Transformation

• Gradualism

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What is the pattern of evolution in which long stable periods are interrupted by brief periods or more rapid change?

• Punctuated equalism

• Indiana weather

• Punctuated equalibrium

• Sleep

What is the name given to a scientist that studies fossils?

• Paleontologist

• Oncologist

• Herpetologist

• Period

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What are changes in anatomy, phylogeny, ecology, and behavior that take place in clades larger than a single species?

• Microevolutionary patterns

• Macroevolutionary patterns

• Molecular clock

• Species evolutionary patterns

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What is the extinction caused by slow and steady processes of natural selection?

• Background extinction

• Total annhilation

• Backstand extinction

• Backwards extinction

What is the name given to a species that has died out?

• coevolution

• gradualism

• extinct

• exist

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What is the method of determining the age of a fossil by comparing its placement with that of fossils in other rock layers?

• index fossil

• relative dating

• carbon dating

• radiometric dating

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Although he was an influence on how Charles Darwin hypothesized evolution, this man incorrectly assumed that organisms could alter their traits and pass them on as “acquired characteristics.”

• James Hutton

• Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

• Charles Lyell

• Thomas Malthus

The process that allows organisms with variations most suited to their local environment to survive and leave more offspring .

• Fitness

• Artificial selection

• Natural Selection

• Adaptation

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First to propose that evolution occurs naturally when individuals best suited to the environment survive and reproduce

• Gregor Mendel

• Alfred Wagoner

• Louis Pasteur

• Charles Darwin

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