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Life & Evolution Review

Total questions: 23

Worksheet time: 16mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What mechanism is behind selective breeding?

a)

Artificially selecting desired phenotypes

b)

Breeding the fittest that will survive

c)

Increasing the pool of alleles

d)

Artificially selecting desired genotypes

2.

Spontaneous generation is an example of?

a)

Abiogenesis

b)

Biogenesis

3.

Which one of the following experiments gives evidence that the origin of life may come from abiogenesis?

a)

Francisco Redi's meat in a jar experiment

b)

Miller-Urey's early Earth experiment

c)

Pasteur's swan-necked flask experiment

d)

Darwin's voyage to the Galapagos Islands

4.

Why did we do the Mystery Tube experiment to start this unit?

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5.

Lamarck's theory of evolution had which three principles?

a)

Need, Use and Disuse, Adapted Characteristics

b)

Need, Use it or lose it, Adapted Characteristics

c)

Need, Use and Disuse, Acquired Characteristics

d)

Necessary, Use it or lose it, Acquired Characteristics

6.

Reproduction is an example of?

a)

Abiogenesis

b)

Biogenesis

7.

What does it mean when natural selection selects AGAINST a phenotype?

a)

The allele for the phenotype is mutating.

b)

The allele for that phenotype will become more frequent in the population.

c)

The allele for the phenotype is evolving.

d)

The allele for that phenotype will become less frequent in the population.

8.

If the fish in the Qu'Appelle River are geographically isolated from the fish in the North Saskatchewan River, then they are also...

a)

Reproductively isolated

b)

Behaviorally isolated

c)

Facing a postzygotic barrier

d)

Facing a prezygotic barrier

9.

Natural selection and evolution mean the same thing.

a)

True

b)

False

10.

What is behavioral isolation?

a)

Two species together in a location but not recognizing each other as mates.

b)

Two species isolated in different locations.

c)

Two species together in a location but their breeding seasons are different.

d)

Two species together in a location but they eat different foods.

11.

Bats use echolocation (sound-based "seeing") to hunt their prey, moths. The moths have now evolved to hear the bat's "clicking" and fly away from it, so the successful bats are those that "click" at higher frequencies. Some moths have evolved even better hearing now. This is an example of:

a)

Speciation

b)

Behavioral isolation

c)

Coevolution

d)

Evolutionary arms race

12.

One bone, two bones, lots-o-bones, digits! Who represents this jingle, what does this jingle mean, and why does it matter in this unit on Evolution?

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13.

An example of a postzygotic barrier is:

a)

Fetus not developing

b)

Sterile offspring

c)

Geographic isolation

d)

Behavioral isolation

14.

There are nine characteristics of life we looked at in this unit. Name as many as you can now.

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15.

How fast does evolution by natural selection occur?

a)

As fast as the fossil record says.

b)

One trip to the Galapagos Islands.

c)

As fast as gradualism says.

d)

As fast as punctuated equilibrium says.

e)

We don't know.

16.

Biology can tell you when human life begins and ends.

a)

True

b)

False

17.

In the Battle of the Beaks lab, all of the birds (students) live in the same habitat (classroom), but are still different species: Tweezer-beaks, Scissor-beaks, and Clothespin-beaks. What can we assume happened to the birds' ancestors?

a)

Geographic isolation

b)

Allopatric speciation

c)

Sympatric speciation

d)

Prezygotic barriers

18.

A scientific theory is more than just a theory because...

a)

More than one field of science supports it.

b)

There is a ton of evidence behind it.

c)

It makes sense with everything we have seen but it can still change.

d)

All of these.

19.

Adaptive radiation: what is it?

a)

A species gaining lots of adaptations in a short amount of time.

b)

A species making many hybrid species.

c)

One species diversifying into many species.

d)

It's what happened after Chernobyl.

20.

Birds came from the same ancestor as dinosaurs. Meanwhile, bats are mammals. Both of these groups have wings. What are their wings an example of?

a)

Homologous structures

b)

Analogous structures

21.

A sudden, widespread decrease in biodiversity is...

a)

Natural selection

b)

Mass extinction

c)

Predation

d)

Genetic drift

22.

What does the "bio" in "biology" mean?

a)

Life/living things

b)

DNA

c)

Science

d)

Life and death

23.

What does VIDA stand for?

a)

Variation, Inheritance, Difference, Adaptation

b)

Variation, Inherited Alleles, Differential survival and reproduction, Acquired Characteristics

c)

Variation, Inheritance, Differential survival and reproduction, Acquired Characteristics

d)

Variation, Inheritance, Differential survival and reproduction, Adaptation