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Speciation

Total questions: 28

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
A flash flood carried a raft of Amazon ants away from their original population. There is enough distance between the two groups, that they will never meet in nature again. What type of reproductive barrier is this?
a)
behavioral isolation
b)
temporal isolation 
c)
gametic isolation
d)
geographic isolation 
2.
The genitalia of the male damselfly varies in shape. Certain males can only hold onto & mate with females whose genitalia fit.  What type of reproductive barrier is this?
a)
behavioral isolation
b)
temporal isolation 
c)
gametic isolation
d)
mechanical isolation 
3.
Some female peacocks prefer males with large, colorful tales while other female peacocks prefer males with no tail at all. Females are beginning to only mate with the type of males with the tail they prefer. What type of reproductive barrier is this?
a)
behavioral isolation
b)
hybrid sterility 
c)
temporal isolation
d)
mechanical isolation 
4.
The flowers of pink tulips open in the morning, while the flowers of lavender tulips open in the early afternoon. The bees that pollinate these tulips cannot carry pollen back & forth between the two types of tulips because of their flowers being closed at different times of day. What type of reproductive barrier is this?
a)
behavioral isolation
b)
hybrid sterility 
c)
temporal isolation
d)
mechanical isolation 
5.
The term for the formation of new and distinct species over the course of evolution is...
a)
speciation
b)
biological species concept
c)
reproductive barrier
d)
natural selection
6.
What is a species? 
a)
A group of organisms that can mate with each other and produce fertile offspring. 
b)
A group of organisms that can mate and produce offspring even if those offspring are infertile.
c)
A group of organisms that genetically are very different from each other. 
d)
Indivual organisms that live in the same environment. 
7.
If an environment changes, populations with ______________ have a better chance of survival.
a)
No genetic variations
b)
Genetic variations
c)
A small number
d)
A large number
8.
The climate of a certain area is cold, and snow is found on the ground most of the year. Equal numbers of two populations of rabbits are introduced into this climate by a group of scientists. One of the populations is brown and the other is white. Predict what will happen over several generations.
a)
There will be equal numbers of brown and white rabbits
b)
There will be more brown rabbits that white rabbits
c)
There will be more white rabbits than brown rabbits
d)
There is no way to predict what will happen to the rabbit population
9.

When the Grand Canyon in Arizona formed, two populations of one squirrel species were separated by the giant canyon. This is an example of _____________.

a)

Temporal isolation

b)

Behavioral isolation

c)

Geographic isolation

10.
What is genetic drift?
a)
The movement of genes in/out of a population
b)
A small, random change in the DNA
c)
Any change in the allelic frequencies in a population that is due to chance
d)
›The process in which humans select for or against particular features in organisms
11.
When has speciation occurred?
a)
When populations no longer look the same
b)
When populations no longer have the same frequency of alleles
c)
When populations are living in different environments
d)
When populations can no longer interbreed
12.

Three populations of crickets look very similar, but the males have courtship songs that sound different. What function would this difference in song likely serve if the populations came in contact?

a)

A temporal reproductive isolating mechanism

b)

A postzygotic isolating mechanism

c)

A behavioral reproductive isolating mechanism

d)

A gametic reproductive isolating mechanism

13.

The common edible frog of Europe is a hybrid between two species, Rana lessonae and Rana ridibunda. The hybrids were first described in 1758 and have a wide distribution, from France across central Europe to Russia. Both male and female hybrids exist, but when they mate among themselves, they are rarely successful in producing offspring. What can you infer from this information?

a)

Postzygotic isolation exists between the two frog species.

b)

Prezygotic isolation exists between the two frog species.

c)

These two species are likely in the process of fusing back into one species.

d)

The hybrids form a separate species under the biological species concept.

14.

Rocky Mountain juniper (Juniperus scopulorum) and one-seeded juniper (J. monosperma) have overlapping ranges. Pollen grains (which contain sperm cells) from one species are unable to germinate and make pollen tubes on female ovules (which contain egg cells) of the other species. These two juniper species are kept separate by _____.

a)

Habitat isolation

b)

Temporal isolation

c)

Gametic isolation

d)

Behavioral isolation

15.

How are two different species most likely to evolve from one ancestral species?

a)

Sympatrically, by a point mutation affecting morphology or behaviorn

b)

Sympatrically, due to extensive inbreeding

c)

Allopatrically, due to extensive inbreeding

d)

Allopatrically, after the ancestral species has split into two populations

16.

What is founder effect?

a)

A process in which random events cause unpredictable fluctuations in allele frequencies from one generation to the next.

b)

When a few individuals become isolated from a larger population and form a new population whose gene pool composition is not reflective of that of the original population.

c)

When the size of a population is reduced, as by a natural disaster or human actions, he surviving population is no longer genetically representative of the original population.

d)

The evolutionary process that occurs when a population is exposed to environmental factors that cause individuals with certain heritable traits to have greater reproductive success

17.

A new river forms and splits two populations, causing ______________ speciation

a)

Sympatric

b)

Allopatric

c)

Extreme

d)

Convergent

18.

Two organisms are of the same species if they _. Select 3

a)

Interbreed

b)

Produce viable offspring

c)

Produce fertile offspring

d)

Share many morphological characteristics

e)

Share many molecular (DNA, RNA, and protein) similarities

19.

Which of the following terms describes when interbreeding to produce viable and fertile offspring is no longer possible?

a)

Reproductive isolation

b)

Allopatric isolation

c)

Sympatric isolation

d)

Prezygotic isolation

e)

Postzygotic isolation

20.

What are the two forms of speciation?

a)

Allopatric

b)

Sympatric

c)

Prezygotic

d)

Postzygotic

e)

Genetic drift

21.

Which form of speciation involves geographic barriers?

a)

Allopatric

b)

Sympatric

c)

Prezygotic

d)

Postzygotic

e)

Genetic drift

22.

Why does geographic isolation result in speciation?

a)

The populations are exposed to different selective pressures in different environments

b)

The populations are exposed to different selective pressures within the same environment

c)

The populations are exposed to the same selective pressures in different environments

d)

The populations are exposed to the same selective pressures within the same environment

23.

Both prezygotic and postzygotic barriers maintain reproductive isolation between populations by preventing _

a)

Gene flow

b)

Genetic drift

c)

Natural selection

d)

Mutations

e)

All mechanisms of evolution

24.

Prezygotic barriers impede _. Select 2

a)

Mating

b)

Fertilization

c)

Hybrid viability

d)

Hybrid fertility

25.

Postzygotic barriers impede _. Select 2

a)

Mating

b)

Fertilization

c)

Hybrid viability

d)

Hybrid fertility

26.

What is habitat isolation (prezygotic)?

a)

Species occupy different living or mating spaces within the same environment

b)

Species mate at different times (day, season, year)

c)

Species have differences in courtship and mating

d)

Species have different genitalia; sex and subsequent fertilization is highly unlikely

e)

The sperm of one species is unable to fertilize the egg of another 

27.

What is temporal isolation (prezygotic)?

a)

Species occupy different living or mating spaces within the same environment

b)

Species mate at different times (day, season, year)

c)

Species have differences in courtship and mating

d)

Species have different genitalia; sex and subsequent fertilization is highly unlikely

e)

The sperm of one species is unable to fertilize the egg of another 

28.

What is hybrid breakdown?

a)

The offspring of two species are unable to fully develop or survive

b)

The offspring of two species are sterile (unable to have offspring)

c)

Some offspring of two species are viable and fertile, but when they mate with one another or either parent species, the offspring are inviable or sterile

d)

Mating between two species fails to produce hybrid zygotes

e)

Mating between two species produces geographically isolated hybrids