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evolucey pucey

Total questions: 26

Worksheet time: 21mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

evolution

a)

genetic change in an organism

b)

genetic change but in a POPULATION

c)

genetic change in a populations organim

d)

the genetic different in the span of regions

2.

speciation

a)

when you get a new species

b)

when a scientist uses bias against a population

c)

when a new organism is created

d)

among us

3.

arisotle believed species are

a)

fixed, unchanging

b)

stuck in timing

c)

evolve but super slowly

d)

created by demonds who fester upon the helpless souls of brooding children

4.

scale of nature

a)

james hutton's idea of geology

b)

binmial nonmenclature

c)

organizing organisms on a ladders

d)

classifying organisms into files

5.

carolus linnaeus

a)

daddy of taxonomy

b)

created scale of nature

c)

geologist

d)

father of geology

6.

darwin's grand-daddy

a)

basically believed in natural selection but did not have a system organized for it

b)

looked at whale bones

c)

physician and naturalist

d)

taologist

7.

James Hutton

a)

famous taxonomist who studied vestigial organs

b)

invented binomeal nonmaclature

c)

Father of Geology

d)

classified animals

8.

thomas malthus

a)

economist

b)

geologist

c)

faster population growth than resources available

d)

invented scales

9.

Jean Baptiste Lamarck

a)

one of the first people to study evolution

b)

life is not fixed

c)

french taxologist

d)

use & disuse

10.

charles lyell

a)

influenced darwin

b)

naturalist

c)

observed fossils

d)

earth has evolved over millions of years

11.

darwin

a)

HMS beagle

b)

white person

c)

galapagos islands

d)

erasmus' grandson

12.

natural selection

a)

over production

b)

variation

c)

mutations

d)

competition

e)

survival

13.

if something is analogous , then

a)

same ancestor

b)

different ancestor

c)

different function

d)

same function

14.

if something is HOMOLOGOUS , then it means

a)

same ancestor

b)

different ancestor

c)

same function

d)

different function

15.

hardy weinny burg theory states that

a)

there are five rules for a population that never evolves

b)

a popuulation cannot evolve without mutations

c)

populations disengage organisms

d)

the theory of lamarck

16.

vestigial organs

a)

body parts

b)

with no use

c)

with use

17.

comparative anatomy

a)

Hutton's theory on selection

b)

the study of how natural selection impacts organisms

c)

binomial nonmenclature

d)

the study of similarities and differences

18.

directional selection

a)

the extreme of both sides connected

b)

non-extreme mean

c)

its extreme

19.

stabalizing selection

a)

AGAINST phenotype extremes

b)

example:body mass

c)

its STABLE

d)

its the extreme of a mean

20.

disruptive selection

a)

the mean phenotype

b)

the extreme

c)

in between the extreme and the mean

21.

directional selection

a)

favors an extreme over the other

b)

example: peppered moths

c)

example: finches (food)

d)

favors the mean over the extreme

e)

example ; the hares of the galapagos

22.

stabalizing selection

a)

does anything except extremes . (its STABLE)

b)

picks an extreme over the mean

c)

picks the mean

23.

disruptive selection

a)

selected AGAINST the MEAN pheno-type

b)

select the mean

c)

selective of one extreme

d)

example:bunnies/hares

e)

example: the striped koi

24.

Hi! My name is Micheal. My parents birthed me. My mom is a ginger, and my dad has vicious black hair. I came out with vicious black hair. What type of selection is that?

a)

directional selection

b)

disruptive selection

c)

stabilizing selection

25.

Hi! My parents ALSO made me recently. I am strawberry blonde... but my mommy is blonde, and my other mommy is ginger... am I adopted? Or is this a type of selection...

a)

dont worry! its stabilizing selection

b)

dont worry! this is disruptive selection

c)

dont worry! this is directional selection

d)

youre adopted

26.

hi....im a pig. My mom is brown and blends in with mud, and my dad is green and blends in with grass! I'm... purple ): what selection am I?

a)

ew disruptive pig

b)

ew directional pig

c)

ew stabilizing pig

d)

bacon