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Selection and Speciation

Total questions: 21

Worksheet time: 13mins

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Class
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1.

Define natural selection

a)

A process in which individuals that have certain traits tend to survive and reproduce at higher rates than other individuals because of those traits

b)

Natural selection that favors one extreme phenotypes by acting against another extreme phenotypes

c)

Natural selection that act against average phenotype and favors both of extreme phenotypes.

2.

What are the three types of natural selection?

a)

Stabilizing seelction

b)

Artificial selection

c)

Directional selection

d)

Disruptive selection

3.

What type of natural selection does this graph present?

a)

Stabilizing selection

b)

Disruptive selection

c)

Directional selection

4.

What is the definition of directional selection?

a)

Natural selection that favors intermediate or average phenotype by acting against both extreme phenotype.

b)

Natural selection that favors one extreme phenotype by acting against another extreme phenotype

c)

Natural selection that act against intermediate or average phenotype and favors both extreme phenotype.

5.

What is the suitable example of disruptive selection?

a)

Length width of hawk?

b)

Black peppered moth

c)

Size and shape of beak of Finches in Galapagos Island

6.

Which of the statement on natural selection is false?

a)

The selection pressure is human

b)

The selection pressure is enviroment

7.

What is the definition of artificial selection?

a)

Selective reproduction between closely related organism, in order to propagate particularly desirable characteristic.

b)

Crossing between unrelated or distantly related individuals of a species to produce a progeny.

c)

Human intervention in animals or plants reproduction to ensure certain desirable traits are represented in the next descending (next) generation.

8.

What is the example of inbreeding?

a)

Marriage between classmates

b)

Marriage between relatives

c)

Marriage between other species

9.

What are the effects of inbreeding

a)

Loss of vigor ( healthier , larger offspring )

b)

Reduces the variability of genome

c)

Numbers of homozygous phenotype increase

d)

Increase in variation

10.

Which one is a false statement on outbreeding?

a)

The hybrids usually have new and superior phenotypes and have greater potential to adapt to enviromental changes

b)

Increases hybrid vigour or heterozigosity and new opportunities for gene interaction

c)

Hybrid crosses are often stronger (animals) and produces better yield (plants)

11.

What mode of speciation does this picture represent?

a)

Sympatric

b)

Allopatric

12.

Which of these statement on sympatric speciation is correct?

a)

Occurs when two or more population of a species is geographically isolated from one another sufficiently that they do not interbreed.

b)

Requires some form of reproductive isolating mechanism which has arisen from selection within a geographically confined area.

c)

New species will arise within the range of the parents population.

d)

Prolonged separation of population may result in species becoming genetically isolated even being brought together.

13.

What are the example of pre-zygotic isolating mechanism?

a)

Hybrid inviability

b)

Habitat Isolation

c)

Temporal Isolation

d)

Hybrid breakdown

14.

What are the example of gametic isolation?

a)

Certain groups of birds only respond to a species specific mating call

b)

Five species of frog occupy the same habitat but breed during different time

c)

In animals, the reproductive tract of the female produces chemicals that could kill the spermatazoa of another species

d)

Certain breeds of the are morphologically incapable of mating due to size.

15.

Which is the correct example for hybrid infertility?

a)

Hybrids are produced but fails to develop to maturity.

b)

F1 hybrids are fertile, but F2 generation fails to develop properly

c)

Hybrids fail to produce functional gametes.

16.

Choose the processes that leads to speciation

a)

Reproductive isolation

b)

Hybridization

c)

Genetic drift

d)

Adaptive radiation

17.

Which are the similarities between Bottleneck Effect and Founder Effect?

a)

Occurs when a small population colonize a new area

b)

Occurs in chance of event

c)

Occurs when small population is isolate dispersed from a larger original population

d)

Change the allele and genotype frquencies

18.

Which of these statement is true about Bottleneck Effect?

a)

The genetic drift occurs when establishing a new small population, which is isolated from original large population

b)

The genetic drifts that occurs in small surviving population after an environmental disaster

c)

Occurs when the population suddenly reduces in size

d)

Shift from Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium

19.

What are the importance of adaptive radiation?

a)

Organism can adapt with environment changes

b)

Genetic variability is increased

c)

Species may consume different food and reduces competition.

d)

Increase the number of homozygous phenotype

20.

Which process that leads to speciation does this picture represent?

a)

Hybridization

b)

Adaptive Radiation

c)

Genetic Drift

21.

Burung apa yang suka bersuka ria?

a)

Burung merpati

b)

Burung unta

c)

Burung pipit