Evolution & Ecology – Student Assessment

Which term describes the study of how organisms interact with each other and with their environment?

• Evolution

• Ecology

• Genetics

• Anatomy

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Which evolutionary mechanism is caused by random chance and is most common in small populations?

• Natural Selection

• Genetic Drift

• Convergent Evolution

• Artificial Selection

In the bottleneck effect, what happens to the gene pool of a population?

• It becomes larger and more diverse.

• It shrinks, leading to reduced genetic diversity.

• It stays exactly the same.

• It eliminates all favorable traits.

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A population of beetles becomes separated by a river. Over many generations, they evolve into two distinct species. This is an example of:

• Convergent Evolution

• Divergent Evolution

• Coevolution

• Artificial Selection

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Humans have bred dogs from wolves into hundreds of different breeds. Which type of evolution is this?

• Natural Selection

• Artificial Selection

• Genetic Drift

• Coevolution

Identify the evolutionary mechanism described in this example.

• Natural selection

• Genetic drift

• Mutation

• Gene flow

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A small group of lizards drifts to an island on floating vegetation. Over generations, they evolve differently from the mainland lizards. Which mechanism of evolution is demonstrated?

• Founder Effect

• Natural Selection

• Gene Flow

• Bottleneck Effect

Which mechanism of evolution is demonstrated?

• Coevolution

• Genetic Drift

• Mutation

• Natural Selection

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Which mechanism of evolution is demonstrated?

• Convergent Evolution

• Genetic Drift

• Divergent Evolution

• Artificial Selection

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Which mechanism of evolution is demonstrated?

• Natural Selection

• Genetic Drift

• Mutation

• Gene Flow

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