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WorksheetsChapter 7 Quiz
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 7mins
Which is an example of variation determined only by genetics?
scars
hair colour
blood group
language
Individuals with desirable characteristics surviving and reproducing is known as...?
evolution
variation
natural selection
mutation
Who was the first person to describe natural selection as "survival of the fittest"?
Lamarck
Darwin
Newton
Wallace
Differences in characteristics between members of the same population is called...?
variation
mutation
adaptation
evolution
what description best suits the definition of mutation
A change in anticodons of DNA
A spontaneous change in the base sequence of DNA
A change in amino acid folding
a process which makes things look weird
Who said "a giraffe's neck will get longer as it stretches it to reach food. This is trait will get passed on to the next generation"?
Lamarck
Darwin
Harry Kane
Gareth Bale
What can accelerate the rate of evolution in organisms?
Good nutrition
Environmental change
Radiation
Ectoplasm
What is an example of a trace fossil?
fossil found in ice
fossil found in a peat bog
fossil found under layers of sediment
footprints of ancient animals
What did Alfred Wallace do a lot of work on?
warning colouration in organisms
studies the wings of butterflies
studied natural selection in apes
trying to destroy Darwin
what can lead to speciation over time?
meteorites hitting the earth
Mr Morgan
Geographical barriers
food sources
organisms of different species can sometimes successfully reproduces to make offspring that are infertile. What are these called?
mutants
inbreeds
hybrids
plasmids
Who carried out the experiments on peppered moths to show natural selection in action?
Charles Darwin
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Bernard Kettlewell
Alfred Wallace
Antibiotic resistance will be a huge public health problem in the next 50 years. One particularly nasty resistant strain of bacteria is called MRSA. What does the M stand for?
Mytroxycholroquine
Methicillin
Microbial
Micellenar
genetic engineering has been used to make large quantities of insulin. What part of the bacterial cell do we insert the insulin gene into to allow it to make insulin
plastic
plasma
plasmodesmata
plasmid
What does the binomial rule of classification include?
Kingdom, family
Genus, Species
Class, Order
Family, Species
