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Evolution

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 30mins

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Class
Date
1.

Which statement does not support scientific theory:

a)

Theories can explain a wide variety of data and observations.

b)

Through advancements in technology, new discoveries can change a theory or add to it.

c)

A theory expresses doubt.

d)

Theories can be used to make predictions

2.

Scientist that presented evidence that evolution happens and gave an explanation of how it happens:

a)

Gregor Mendel

b)

Charles Darwin

c)

Robert Hook

d)

James Watson

e)

Francis Crick

3.

A change in the inherited characteristics of a population (species) over time is called:

a)

evolution

b)

protein synthesis

c)

karyotyping

d)

pedigree analysis

4.

Process when breeders select individuals that have desirable traits that can be inherited by offspring

a)

natural selection

b)

artificial selection

c)

adaptation

d)

embryonic development

5.

Individuals that have traits that allow them to survive in their environment and pass those traits to their offspring is called:

a)

natural selection

b)

artificial selection

c)

karyotyping

d)

selective breeding

6.

Structures that are embryologically similar, but have different functions are called:

a)

analogous structures

b)

equivalent structures

c)

dissimilar structures

d)

homologous structures

7.

Which of the following is not evidence for evolution:

a)

binary fission

b)

embryonic development

c)

homologous structures

d)

biochemistry and DNA

e)

fossils

8.

Bones or organs in an animal that have no apparent function but does have a function in another similar animal (examples: snakes have tiny pelvic and limb bones and humans have a tail bone) are called:

a)

homologous structures

b)

embryonic structures

c)

vestigial structures

d)

analogous structures

9.

Refers to changes in the genes of populations:

a)

microevolution

b)

macroevolution

c)

convergent evolution

d)

coevolution

10.

Which process is not associated with microevolution:

a)

natural selection

b)

migration

c)

extinction

d)

mutation

11.

Pattern of macroevolution when species living in similar environments evolve similar adaptations:

a)

adaptive radiation

b)

gradualism

c)

coevolution

d)

convergent evolution

12.

Pattern of macroevolution when two or more species that live in close contact may affect how each species evolves:

a)

adaptive radiation

b)

gradualism

c)

coevolution

d)

convergent evolution

13.

Movement of individuals into, out of, or between populations that can change the numbers and types of alleles

a)

mutation

b)

migration

c)

punctuated equilibrium

d)

genetic drift

14.

Term that refers to all members of a lineage dying off or failing to reproduce:

a)

genetic drift

b)

gradualism

c)

extinction

d)

convergent evolution

15.

This diagram is called a:

a)

karyotype

b)

pedigree chart

c)

cladogram

d)

heterozygous tree