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(Biology) Topic 8 : Evolution

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who concluded that biological evolution occurs as a result of natural selection?

a)

Erwin Chargaff

b)

Charles Darwin

c)

Rosalind Franklin

d)

Robert Hooke

2.

Which of the following is a condition that must be met in order for natural selection to occur?

a)

Individuals must have the same characteristics.

b)

Individuals must produce only the amount of offspring that can survive.

c)

Individuals must be from the same species.

d)

Offspring must inherit some characteristics from their parents.

3.

What are two examples of Genetic Drift?

a)

Bottleneck

b)

Genetic Variation

c)

Founder Effect

d)

Natural Selection

4.

What is a Bottleneck?

a)

Population crashes and greatly reduces number and diversity of population.

b)

Small group leaves to start a new group, which reduces diversity.

c)

Organisms of the same species are able to move back and forth between areas to increase population diversity.

d)

Any genetic change inherited over several generations.

5.

What is the Founder Effect?

a)

Population crashes and greatly reduces number and diversity of population.

b)

Small group leaves to start a new group, which reduces diversity.

c)

Any genetic change inherited over several generations.

d)

Organisms of the same species are able to move back and forth between areas to increase population diversity.

6.

What is Gene Flow?

a)

Small group leaves to start a new group, which reduces diversity.

b)

Organisms of the same species are able to move back and forth between areas to increase population diversity.

c)

Any genetic change inherited over several generations.

d)

Population crashes and greatly reduces number and diversity of population.

7.

What type of evidence for evolution provides the most detailed information for scientists?

a)

Anatomy

b)

Physiology

c)

Phylogeny

d)

Biochemical

8.

What compares the embryos of different species?

a)

Fossil Evidence

b)

Embryology

c)

Physiology

d)

Biochemical Evidence

9.

What is Fossil Evidence?

a)

Links present day organisms to the common ancestors.

b)

Compares difference in either DNA or Proteins

c)

Compares Embryos of different species.

d)

Structures that have the same shape or form.

10.

What has the same structures, but different functions?

a)

Analogous Structures

b)

Vestigial Structures

c)

Homologous Structures

d)

Embryology

11.

What has different structures, but the same functions?

a)

Homologous Structures

b)

Vestigial Structures

c)

Fossil Structures

d)

Analogous Structures

12.

What are structures that are reduced in size and no longer needed, but were present in a common ancestor?

a)

Vestigial Structures

b)

Homologous Structures

c)

Analogous Structures

d)

Embryotic Structures

13.

What is the process in which species develop from pre-existing species?

a)

Evolution

b)

Mitosis

c)

Binary Fission

d)

Cell Cycle

14.

What happens to the species that have the advantageous traits? (Choose Two)

a)

Survive

b)

Reproduce

c)

Nothing

d)

Die

15.

What happens to the species without the advantageous trait?

a)

Reproduce

b)

Die

c)

Nothing

d)

Survive

16.

What type of isolating mechanism are islands, rivers, and mountains and example of?

a)

Evolution

b)

Geographic

c)

Temperal

d)

Behavioral

17.

Organisms being made at different times is what type of isolating mechanism?

a)

Geographical

b)

Behavioral

c)

Temperal

d)

Evolution

18.

The inability to identify the proper mate is what type of isolation mechanism?

a)

Geographical

b)

Temperal

c)

Behavioral

d)

Evolution

19.

What evidence for evolution shows changes over time?

a)

Fossil Evidence

b)

Homologous Structures

c)

Embryology

d)

Analogous Structures

20.

What happens during Gradualism?

a)

Little change over time

b)

Big change over time

c)

The extinction of a species

d)

Sudden evolutionary change

21.

What happens during Punctuated Equilibrium.

a)

Little change over time

b)

Big change over time

c)

The extinction of a species

d)

Sudden evolutionary change

22.

What is the breeding of animal/plants to get what you want?

a)

Selective Breeding

b)

Biochemistry

c)

Inbreeding

d)

Hybridization

23.

What is the process of creating purebreds?

a)

Selective Breeding

b)

Biochemistry

c)

Inbreeding

d)

Hybridization

24.

What is the process of an animal or plant breeding with an individual of another species?

a)

Hybridization

b)

Inbreeding

c)

Biochemistry

d)

Selective Breeding

25.

What is Phylogeny?

a)

Structures that have the same shape/form, but different functions

b)

History of evolution of organisms

c)

Little change over time

d)

Different structures, same functions