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Chapter 7 Quiz

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which is an example of variation determined only by genetics?

a)

scars

b)

hair colour

c)

blood group

d)

language

2.

Individuals with desirable characteristics surviving and reproducing is known as...?

a)

evolution

b)

variation

c)

natural selection

d)

mutation

3.

Who was the first person to describe natural selection as "survival of the fittest"?

a)

Lamarck

b)

Darwin

c)

Newton

d)

Wallace

4.

Differences in characteristics between members of the same population is called...?

a)

variation

b)

mutation

c)

adaptation

d)

evolution

5.

what description best suits the definition of mutation

a)

A change in anticodons of DNA

b)

A spontaneous change in the base sequence of DNA

c)

A change in amino acid folding

d)

a process which makes things look weird

6.

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"?

a)

Lamarck

b)

Darwin

c)

Harry Kane

d)

Gareth Bale

7.

What can accelerate the rate of evolution in organisms?

a)

Good nutrition

b)

Environmental change

c)

Radiation

d)

Ectoplasm

8.

What is an example of a trace fossil?

a)

fossil found in ice

b)

fossil found in a peat bog

c)

fossil found under layers of sediment

d)

footprints of ancient animals

9.

What did Alfred Wallace do a lot of work on?

a)

warning colouration in organisms

b)

studies the wings of butterflies

c)

studied natural selection in apes

d)

trying to destroy Darwin

10.

what can lead to speciation over time?

a)

meteorites hitting the earth

b)

Mr Morgan

c)

Geographical barriers

d)

food sources

11.

organisms of different species can sometimes successfully reproduces to make offspring that are infertile. What are these called?

a)

mutants

b)

inbreeds

c)

hybrids

d)

plasmids

12.

Who carried out the experiments on peppered moths to show natural selection in action?

a)

Charles Darwin

b)

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

c)

Bernard Kettlewell

d)

Alfred Wallace

13.

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?

a)

Mytroxycholroquine

b)

Methicillin

c)

Microbial

d)

Micellenar

14.

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

a)

plastic

b)

plasma

c)

plasmodesmata

d)

plasmid

15.

What does the binomial rule of classification include?

a)

Kingdom, family

b)

Genus, Species

c)

Class, Order

d)

Family, Species