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Origin of life and evolution

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 30mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What kind of individuals appeared first on Earth?

a)

Algae

b)

Procaryotic

c)

Eucaryotic

d)

Virus

2.

What does evolution mean?

a)

Change over generations

b)

Metamorphosis

c)

Inheritance of acquired characters

d)

Growth of organisms

3.

Who were the authors of this theory?

a)

Jean Baptiste Lamarck

b)

Carl von Linneo

c)

Aristotle

d)

Charles Darwin and Russel Wallace

4.

Some individuals gain advantageous characteristics that give them a greater probability of reproducing, so they transmit them to their offspring. We call this process...

a)

Genetic drift

b)

Gene flow

c)

Synthetic theory

d)

Natural selection

5.

Which one is not related to evolution?

a)

Mutations

b)

Genetic recombination

c)

Spontaneous generation

d)

The environment

6.

How do we know two organisms are different species?

a)

They look different

b)

They can't procreate

c)

They compete for the same resources

d)

They behave differently

7.

Which one is not a proof of evolution?

a)

Comparative anatomy

b)

Palaeontology

c)

Embryology

d)

Astrology

8.

Which one of these adaptations allowed the human evolution?

a)

Stand on two legs

b)

Development of cranial capacity

c)

Eating meat

d)

All of them

9.

What is the last ancestor of Homo sapiens?

a)

Homo erectus

b)

Homo habilis

c)

Homo neanderthalensis

d)

Australopithecus afarensis

10.

Are all primates related to Homo sapiens?

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