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AP Bio: Natural Selection

Total questions: 35

Worksheet time: 18mins

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Class
Date
1.

Define directional selection.

a)

The majority is favored.

b)

The minority is favored.

c)

One of the extremes are favored.

d)

Both of the extremes are favored.

2.

Define disruptive selection.

a)

One of the extremes are favored.

b)

Both of the extremes are favored.

c)

The majority is favored.

d)

Extinction.

3.

Define stabilizing selection.

a)

The majority is favored.

b)

The minority is favored.

c)

The extremes are favored.

d)

One extreme is favored.

4.

If you have both alleles, you can pass on the favorable one to your offspring so they will be successful

a)

heterozygote advantage

b)

homozygote advantage

5.

Which one of these is not a type of isolation?

a)

Habitat

b)

Preference

c)

Gametic

d)

Temporal

6.

What is parallel evolution?

a)

When two species share the same slope

b)

Two species stay the same over time

c)

One species grows while the other shrinks

d)

Two species merge together.

7.

Which of these are vestigial traits in humans? (Select All)

a)

eye color

b)

tailbone

c)

appendix

d)

adam's apple

8.

Which of these are prezygotic forms of evolution? Select all.

a)

Sterile offspring

b)

Habitat isolation

c)

Gametic isolation

d)

Hybrid inviability

9.

Mutualism is...

a)

both benefit

b)

one benefits off the other

c)

one benefits

d)

no one benefits

10.

Commensalism is...

a)

One benefits, the other is not affected

b)

No one benefits

c)

Both benefit

d)

One benefits off the other

11.

Parasitism is...

a)

No one benefits

b)

One benefits off the other

c)

One benefits

d)

Both benefit

12.

Why can an individual organism not evolve?

a)

They can.

b)

Because Mr. Hainey said so.

c)

Evolution happens within multiple generations.

d)

They need to level up first.

13.

(a)   was one of the first to believe in the theory of evolution.

14.

The Darwinian view of life and evolution is...

a)

A tree

b)

A straight line

c)

A circle

d)

A triangle

15.

Is natural selection considered a creating force or an editing force?

a)

Creating

b)

Editing

16.

What is a vestigial structure?

a)

A structure that went away over time

b)

A structure found in many different species

17.

What is a homologous structure?

a)

A structure that went away over time

b)

A structure found in many different species

18.

Which of these are homologous structures?

a)

Human arm, bat wing

b)

Human leg, bat wing

c)

Human finger, dolphin tail

19.

Which of these is NOT a requirement for the Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium?

a)

No mutations

b)

Many mutations

c)

Random mating

d)

No genetic flow

20.

Natural selection occurs on populations, not (a)   .

21.

Natural selection acts on (a)   frequencies

22.

Allopatric speciation is a species created...

a)

within the original population

b)

due to geological barriers

23.

Sympatric speciation is a species created...

a)

within the original population

b)

due to geological barriers

24.

Which of these is NOT a way species change over time

a)

Genetic drift

b)

Founder effect

c)

Bottleneck

d)

Lack of mutations

25.

Genetic (a)   is the transfer of alleles or genes from one population to another

26.

Genetic (a)   is the

chance that the frequency of an allele changes

27.

Which of these means that some type of catastrophe wipes out a large segment of a population and survivors are not a representation of the original population

a)

Founder effect

b)

Bottleneck

c)

Genetic Drift

d)

Mutation

28.

Convergent and divergent evolution are both usually due to changes in the (a)   .

29.

Which of these is a type of isolation defined by postzygotic means?

a)

Hybrid inviability

b)

Mechanical isolation

c)

Habitat isolation

d)

Behavioral isolation

30.

Which of these is NOT a way to determine common ancestry?

a)

Homologous structures

b)

Common habitat

c)

Analogous structures

d)

DNA evidence

31.

Which of these are part of the Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium?

a)

Small population

b)

Large population

c)

No mutations

d)

Many mutations

32.

What do cladograms NOT show?

a)

Number of shared characteristics

b)

When characteristics developed

c)

How closely organisms are related

d)

Number of organisms alive today

33.

What is the most optimal way to determine common ancestry?

a)

Create a cladogram

b)

Embryological evidence

c)

Vestigial structures

d)

Common habitat

34.

Cladogenesis is when a species is (a)  

35.

Anagenesis is the (a)   species.