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Evolution Week 1 and 2 (create a quizizz)

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is not directional selection?

a)

Occurs when phenotypes at one extreme of a trait's range are favored

b)

one extreme of the trait's range is selected against by nature?

c)

Occurs when an intermediate phenotype is favored and becomes more common in a population.

d)

Occurs when both extreme phenotypes are favored

2.

what is an allele frequency?

a)

the movement of alleles between populations

b)

a change in allele frequencies due to chance or random events

c)

a measure of how common a certain allele is in the population.

d)

the combined alleles of all the individual's in a population.

3.

What are the 2 sources of genetic variation?

a)

Mutations and recombination

b)

colors and physical features

c)

gene flow and gene pool

d)

dna and rna

4.

What is intersexual selection

a)

when bacteria uses binary fission

b)

when 2 males fight to mate with a female

c)

when a male has certain traits attract a female

d)

when you only need 1 organism to mate

5.

What is not one of the 5 conditions for a population to stay in equilibrium.

a)

Very large populations

b)

random mating

c)

natural selection occurs

d)

no mutations

6.

What correctly orders the geological time scale

a)

Epoch-Era-periods-Eons

b)

Epoch-periods-era-eons

c)

era-periods-epoch-eons

d)

periods-epoch-eons-era

7.

What is a structural adaption

a)

changes in the behavior of an organism

b)

changes in the organism's metabolic processes.

c)

physical differences in biological structure

d)

differences in patterns of activity in response to the environment

8.

What is mimicry a good a example of?

a)

Structural adaption

b)

camouflage

c)

behavioral adaption

d)

physiological adaption

9.

What are is not an evidence of evoultion?

a)

The fossil record

b)

anatomy

c)

Geographic distribution

d)

dna replication

10.

What is not one of the 6 main principles of natural selection?

a)

Inherited variation

b)

environmental pressure

c)

adaptions

d)

cooperation