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Module 2: Evolution

Total questions: 72

Worksheet time: 36mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The percentage of any one specific allele.

a)

Gene Pool

b)

Allele Frequency

c)

Variations

d)

Genetic Equilibrium

2.

It is how often a particular allele appears in a population.

a)

Gene Pool

b)

Allele Frequency

c)

Variations

d)

Genetic Equilibrium

e)

Population

3.

It is the differences among members os a species.

a)

Gene Pool

b)

Allele Frequency

c)

Variations

d)

Genetic Equilibrium

e)

Population

4.

If the allelic frequency stays the same generations.

a)

Gene Pool

b)

Allele Frequency

c)

Variations

d)

Genetic Equilibrium

e)

Population

5.

All alleles of a population’s genes.

a)

Gene Pool

b)

Allele Frequency

c)

Variations

d)

Genetic Equilibrium

e)

Population

6.

The percentage of any one specific allele.

a)

Gene Pool

b)

Allele Frequency

c)

Variations

d)

Genetic Equilibrium

e)

Population

7.

A group of individuals of the same species living in a particular area at the same time.

a)

Gene Pool

b)

Allele Frequency

c)

Variations

d)

Genetic Equilibrium

e)

Population

8.

If organisms can choose their mating partners, then the more desirable alleles will have a higher frequency in future populations.

a)

Non-Random Mating

b)

Mutation

c)

Genetic Drift

d)

Gene Flow

e)

Natural Selection

9.

A mutation in a parents DNA could result in offspring with different alleles, changing the allele frequency of the population.

a)

Non-Random Mating

b)

Mutation

c)

Genetic Drift

d)

Gene Flow

e)

Natural Selection

10.

It occurs when the allele frequency of a population changes by chance.

a)

Non-Random Mating

b)

Mutation

c)

Genetic Drift

d)

Gene Flow

e)

Natural Selection

11.

It is any movement of genes from one population to another.

a)

Non-Random Mating

b)

Mutation

c)

Genetic Drift

d)

Gene Flow

e)

Natural Selection

12.

Individuals with the best adapted phenotypes will survive and pass of their genes to the next generations.

a)

Non-Random Mating

b)

Mutation

c)

Genetic Drift

d)

Gene Flow

e)

Natural Selection

13.

It refers to change through time as species become modified and diverge to produce multiple descendant species.

a)

Evolution

b)

Selection

c)

Fitness

d)

Survival of the Fittest

14.

It maintains that all diverse forms of life that are now in existence have come into being through a gradual and continual process of modification of ancestral forms.

a)

Evolution

b)

Selection

c)

Fitness

d)

Survival of the Fittest

15.

It is the change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations. These characteristics are the expressions of genes that are passed on from parent to offspring during reproduction.

a)

Evolution

b)

Selection

c)

Fitness

d)

Survival of the Fittest

16.

It is the process whereby organisms that are better adapted to their environment survive and reproduce while those less adapted fail to do so. 

a)

Evolution

b)

Selection

c)

Fitness

d)

Survival of the Fittest

17.

It depends upon the existence of phenotypic variation within the population.

a)

Evolution

b)

Selection

c)

Fitness

d)

Survival of the Fittest

18.

It describes how successful an organism has been at passing on its genes.

a)

Evolution

b)

Selection

c)

Fitness

d)

Survival of the Fittest

19.

It has a great influence to which trait will be passed on to the next generation.

a)

Evolution

b)

Selection

c)

Fitness

d)

Survival of the Fittest

20.

A key factor in the struggles for existence, was how well suited an organism is to its environment.

a)

Evolution

b)

Selection

c)

Fitness

d)

Survival of the Fittest

21.

Darwin called the ability of an organism to survive and reproduce in its environment fitness.

a)

Evolution

b)

Selection

c)

Fitness

d)

Survival of the Fittest

22.

Darwin purposed that fitness is the result of adaptations.

a)

True

b)

False

23.

The Central Idea of Biological Evolution states that all life on Earth shares a common ancestor.

a)

True

b)

False

24.

Father of Evolutionary Thought

a)

Charles Darwin

b)

Jean Baptiste Lamarck

c)

Gregor Mendel

d)

Isaac Newton

25.

Charles Darwin published: On the Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection on 1895.

a)

True

b)

False

26.

Mechanism of Evolution is anything that doesn't changes the frequency of alleles in a population is a mechanism of evolution.

a)

True

b)

False

27.

It is a biological theory that explains why organisms seem to match their environmental niches so well.

a)

Natural Selection

b)

Artificial Selection

28.

Individuals that have certain heritable characteristics survive and reproduce at a higher rate than other individuals.

a)

Natural Selection

b)

Artificial Selection

29.

It brings about adaptation and evolution.

a)

Natural Selection

b)

Artificial Selection

30.

Natural Selection is not evolution. It is a driving force for evolution to happen.

a)

True

b)

False

31.

It should be capable of substantial modification of species over many hundreds of generations. Even if the advantages of some heritable traits over others are slight, the advantageous variations will gradually accumulate in the population, and less favorable variations will diminish.

a)

Natural Selection

b)

Artificial Selection

32.

It favors intermediate variants.

a)

Stabilizing Selection

b)

Disruptive Selection

c)

Directional Selection

d)

Sexual Selection

e)

Polymorphism

33.

The intermediate states become more common and each extreme variation will become less common or lost.

a)

Stabilizing Selection

b)

Disruptive Selection

c)

Directional Selection

d)

Sexual Selection

e)

Polymorphism

34.

Genetic diversity decreases as the population stabilizes on a particular trait. and favors intermediate variants.

a)

Stabilizing Selection

b)

Disruptive Selection

c)

Directional Selection

d)

Sexual Selection

e)

Polymorphism

35.

Example: Human Birth Weight

a)

Stabilizing Selection

b)

Disruptive Selection

c)

Directional Selection

d)

Sexual Selection

e)

Polymorphism

36.

It favors individuals at both extremes of a characteristic range. 

a)

Stabilizing Selection

b)

Disruptive Selection

c)

Directional Selection

d)

Sexual Selection

e)

Polymorphism

37.

Example: Population of White, Black, and Gray Rabbits, placed on an environment with black rocks and white rocks. Both white rabbits and black rabbits can hide from predators, while gray rabbits will be eaten.

a)

Stabilizing Selection

b)

Disruptive Selection

c)

Directional Selection

d)

Sexual Selection

e)

Polymorphism

38.

It occurs when a certain allele has greater fitness than others, resulting in an increase in the frequency of that allele until it is fixed in the population gene pool. 

a)

Stabilizing Selection

b)

Disruptive Selection

c)

Directional Selection

d)

Sexual Selection

e)

Polymorphism

39.

Example: Human Height

a)

Stabilizing Selection

b)

Disruptive Selection

c)

Directional Selection

d)

Sexual Selection

e)

Polymorphism

40.

It is a special kind of selection that acts on traits that help animals increase their chances of mating. 

a)

Stabilizing Selection

b)

Disruptive Selection

c)

Directional Selection

d)

Sexual Selection

e)

Polymorphism

41.

Example: The male peacock has an elaborate train (tail) to attract the peahen to mate.

a)

Stabilizing Selection

b)

Disruptive Selection

c)

Directional Selection

d)

Sexual Selection

e)

Polymorphism

42.

This states that there are many different phenotypes found in a population, each group represents a morph.

a)

Stabilizing Selection

b)

Disruptive Selection

c)

Directional Selection

d)

Sexual Selection

e)

Polymorphism

43.

Example: Two morphs of the moth, Boston betularia.

a)

Stabilizing Selection

b)

Disruptive Selection

c)

Directional Selection

d)

Sexual Selection

e)

Polymorphism

44.

Modification of a species through human actions that encourage the breeding of certain traits over others. 

a)

Natural Selection

b)

Artificial Selection

45.

“It works the same way as natural selection, except that with natural selection it is nature, not human interference, that makes these decisions.” - National Geographic

a)

Natural Selection

b)

Artificial Selection

46.

It occurs whenever a human exerts selective pressure on a population in order to improve or modify particular desirable traits.

a)

Natural Selection

b)

Artificial Selection

47.

The genotype is altered to produce a new strain of the organism for a specific purpose. 

a)

Natural Selection

b)

Artificial Selection

48.

Human preferences or influences have a significant effect on the evolution of a particular population or species. 

a)

Natural Selection

b)

Artificial Selection

49.

Selective breeding, an example of this, in which particular individuals are selected for breeding because they possess desired characteristics or excluded from breeding because their traits are undesirable.

a)

Natural Selection

b)

Artificial Selection

50.

Individuals with beneficial traits are more likely to be 'selected' that is, to have more offspring than individuals with other, less beneficial traits.

a)

Natural Selection

b)

Artificial Selection

51.

When those traits have a heritable component they tend to become more common in the next generation.

a)

Natural Selection

b)

Artificial Selection

52.

Alleles with an average result in greater fitness become more abundant in the next generation, while alleles with generally reduced fitness become rarer. 

a)

Natural Selection

b)

Artificial Selection

53.

If the selection forces remain the same for many generations. beneficial alleles become more and more abundant, while alleles with lesser fitness disappear.

a)

Natural Selection

b)

Artificial Selection

54.

It involves natural process of selection, favoring the most fittest

a)

Natural Selection

b)

Artificial Selection

55.

It involves the artificial process where selection is done by favoring the desired characters in the new organism.

a)

Natural Selection

b)

Artificial Selection

56.

Chances of surviving is increased

a)

Natural Selection

b)

Artificial Selection

57.

Chances of surviving of new breed is at risk.

a)

Natural Selection

b)

Artificial Selection

58.

It is slow and has long process.

a)

Natural Selection

b)

Artificial Selection

59.

It is faster and has shorter process.

a)

Natural Selection

b)

Artificial Selection

60.

It is controlled by nature.

a)

Natural Selection

b)

Artificial Selection

61.

It is controlled by humans.

a)

Natural Selection

b)

Artificial Selection

62.

It is performed on all types of organisms.

a)

Natural Selection

b)

Artificial Selection

63.

It is processed on some selective organisms of humans desires.

a)

Natural Selection

b)

Artificial Selection

64.

Selection is totally based on the adaptable character and the one who is able to cop up in all types of natural conditions.

a)

Natural Selection

b)

Artificial Selection

65.

Selection is done on the basis of required character.

a)

Natural Selection

b)

Artificial Selection

66.

It could transform the entire population of a species.

a)

Natural Selection

b)

Artificial Selection

67.

It could bring out new variety of species.

a)

Natural Selection

b)

Artificial Selection

68.

Man-made selection.

a)

Natural Selection

b)

Artificial Selection

69.

It occurs in domestic populations.

a)

Natural Selection

b)

Artificial Selection

70.

It occurs in all kind of natural population

a)

Natural Selection

b)

Artificial Selection

71.

Artificial Breeding removes variation in a population.

a)

True

b)

False

72.

In natural selection, organisms can be susceptible to diseases  or changes in the environment.

a)

True

b)

False