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Quiz for Evolution and Biodiversity

Total questions: 30

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What does DNA mean?

a)

Deoxyribonucleic acid

b)

Ribonucleic acid

c)

Deoxynucleic acid

d)

None of the above

2.

What does RNA means?

a)

Deoxyribonucleic acid

b)

Ribonucleic acid

c)

Deoxynucleic acid

d)

None of the above

3.

What are the building blocks of protein?

a)

Sugar

b)

Fats

c)

Ribonucleic acid

d)

Amino Acid

4.

Which of the following is not a DNA nucleotide base?

a)

Guanine

b)

Cytosine

c)

Adenine

d)

Uracil

5.

Which among the following nucleotide based replaced thymine in RNA?

a)

Guanine

b)

Cytosine

c)

Adenine

d)

Uracil

6.

What is the hereditary material in humans and almost all other organisms?

a)

RNA

b)

DNA

c)

Ribosome

d)

Mitochondria

7.

What is defined as the permanent alteration of nucleotide sequence in the genome of an organism?

a)

Evolution

b)

Transmutation

c)

Drift

d)

Shift

8.

What do you call the agent that triggers mutation?

a)

Pathogens

b)

Mutagens

c)

Invaders

d)

Change carrier gene

9.

What is the process by which DNA is copied to RNA?

a)

Translation

b)

Replication

c)

Transcription

d)

Recombination

10.

What is the process by which RNA is used to produce proteins?

a)

Translation

b)

Replication

c)

Transcription

d)

Recombination

11.

What is a single stranded chain used to code for specific amino acid?

a)

RNA

b)

DNA

c)

Ribosome

d)

Mitochondria

12.

What is a double stranded molecule that consist of four nucleotide bases called adenine, guanine, thymine, and cytosine?

a)

RNA

b)

DNA

c)

Ribosome

d)

Mitochondria

13.

What are the organisms existed at the very early in the history of life on earth?

a)

Human

b)

Giraffe

c)

Dinosaurs

d)

Bacteria

14.

What is the bacteria that establish a stable atmosphere and produced oxygen in such quantities that eventually life forms could evolve that needed oxygen?

a)

E.Coli

b)

Lactobacillus

c)

Cyanobacteria

d)

Staphylococcus

15.

In which domain do humans belong?

a)

Archaea

b)

Bacteria

c)

Eukarya

d)

Primaria

16.

In which kingdom do humans belong?

a)

Animalia

b)

Plantae

c)

Fungus

d)

Protista

17.

Who published a book ‘The Origin of Species’?

a)

Alfred Russel Wallace

b)

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

c)

Charles Darwin

d)

Gregor Mendel

18.

Which is not a function of protein?

a)

Form enzymes to carry out chemical reactions

b)

Form antibodies for protection against infections

c)

Provide structure for the body

d)

None of the above

19.

Which color of mouse will survive the longest in a dark environment in a colony of mice?

a)

Black mice

b)

Tan mice

c)

White mice

d)

Brown mice

20.

It allow organisms to move from one population to another for evolution.

a)

Genetic drift

b)

Gene flow

c)

Natural selection

d)

Comparative anatomy

21.

It is a change in the frequency of alleles in a single population.

a)

Genetic drift

b)

Gene flow

c)

Natural selection

d)

Comparative anatomy

22.

True or False. Humans are the planet's earliest inhabitants.

a)

True

b)

False

23.

True or False. During the early years of the earth, oxygen was the most abundant gas.

a)

True

b)

False

24.

True or False. Cyanobacteria are photosynthetic.

a)

True

b)

False

25.

True or False. All life developed from a common ancestor.

a)

True

b)

False

26.

True or False. Humans are under class Mammalia

a)

True

b)

False

27.

True or False. DNA can be found in the cell’s nucleus and mitochondria

a)

True

b)

False

28.

True or False: Humans came from Apes

a)

True

b)

False

29.

True or False: Evolution is the change in Physical appearance and not in genetic information.

a)

True

b)

False

30.

True or False. Genetic drift is mostly out of luck and natural selection is not.

a)

True

b)

False