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Summative

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 30mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
  1. Famine and disease: Resources and wealth are important concept of Evolution proposed by ______________.

a)

Georges Cuvier                       

b)

Carolus Linnaeus

c)

James Hutton

d)
  1. Thomas Malthus

2.
  1. The formation of Oxygen-dependent organisms due to the Great Oxygenation Event, can be associated with the proposed concept of Evolution by ________.

a)

Georges Cuvier                       

b)

Georges Buffon

c)

James Hutton

d)
  1. Charles Lyell

3.
  1. The following mechanisms are involved in the flies that feed on apple and hawthorn fruit that are in the process/ transition of speciation, except.

a)

Genetic Drift                 

b)

Non-Random Mating 

c)

Gene Flow

d)
  1. Mutation

4.
  1. Which of the following mechanisms is the cause of the speciation of the species of Alpheus that diverged?

a)

Natural Selection        

b)

Non-Random Mating 

c)

Gene Flow

d)
  1. Genetic Drift

5.
  1. Which of the following mechanisms is least involved in Peripatric Speciation?

a)

Natural Selection        

b)

Non-Random Mating 

c)

Gene Flow

d)
  1. Genetic Drift

6.
  1. The following mechanisms are greatly involved in Sympatric Speciation except_____.

a)

Natural Selection        

b)

Non-Random Mating 

c)

Gene Flow

d)
  1. Genetic Drift

7.

Which of the following mechanisms is not involved in Adaptive radiation speciation?

a)

Natural Selection        

b)

Non-Random Mating 

c)

Mutation

d)
  1. Genetic Drift

8.
  1. Which of the following statements is not true about speciation?

a)
  1. The gene flow is primarily the mechanism that causes speciation.  

b)

Organisms diverged into different organisms, and then they changed their characteristics.

c)

Mutation comes first before organisms diverge into different organisms.

d)
  1. Organisms reduce their gene flow which will eventually diverge them into different species.

9.
  1.  

    1. The mechanism of reproductive isolation between the species of Strongylocentrotus.

a)
  1.   Mechanical Isolation

b)

Behavioral Isolation

c)

Gametic Isolation

d)
  1. Temporal Isolation

10.
  1.  

    1. Which of the following groups of organisms underwent Mechanical isolation?

a)
  1.   Sula

b)

Helicornia

c)

Sturnella

d)

Strongylocentrotus

11.
  1.  

    1. Hybrid Inviability is Post-zygotic reproductive isolation that may occur in the Genus of ________.

a)

Thamnophis

b)

Panthera

c)

Capra

d)

Ovis

12.
  1.  

    1. Which of the following is the Post-zygotic barrier?

a)

Mechanical isolation

b)

Temporal isolation

c)

Ecological Isolation

d)

Hybrid breakdown

13.
  1.  

    1. What mechanism of Evolution affects the two species of Ursus? The reason why they undergo speciation.

a)

Adaptation

b)

Gene flow

c)

Mutation

d)

Genetic drift

14.
  1.  

    1. Which of the following statements best describes the organisms with analogous structures?

a)

They do not have the most recent common ancestor.

b)

They have the most recent common ancestor.

c)

They diverge hundreds of years ago.

d)

All of the above.

15.
  1.  

    1. Dromedary, Bactrian and Llama Genus of camel are good in adaptation and develop characteristics useful to them depending on the location. These organisms are under what evidence of evolution?

a)

Homologous structure

b)

Analogous structure                           

c)

Biogeography

d)

Vestigial structures

16.
  1.  

    1. The presence of placenta and structure of teeth are evidence of the evolution that falls under ____________.

a)
  1. Embryology and Comparative Anatomy

b)
  1. Fossil records and Embryology

c)
  1. Comparative Anatomy and Vestigial structure

d)
  1. Vestigial structures and Molecular Biology

17.
  1.  

    1. Cartilaginous fish like lampreys and sharks are close relatives based on the evidence of evolution. Which of the following evidence of evolution best describes the statement?

a)
  1. Molecular Biology

b)
  1. Comparative Anatomy

c)
  1. Comparative Embryology

d)
  1. Fossil Records

18.
  1.  

    1. Which of the following statements best defines the dichotomous key?

a)
  1. It is a tool that helps identify unknown organisms to some taxonomic level.

b)
  1. The key is constructed in a way that a series of choices is made that leads the user to the correct identity of a sample organism.

c)
  1. The tool used to identify, classify, and name the entity using word keys.

d)
  1. The key characteristics are divided into two parts.

19.
  1.  

    1. Based on the data entity was concluded that the dinosaurs are its distant ancestors and it has DNA similar to the birds, so it was grouped under Class Aves. Which Science was best dealt with in the statement?

a)
  1. Evolution

b)
  1. Systematics    

c)
  1. Taxonomy

d)
  1. Phylogeny

20.
  1.  

    1. The process by which new species is formed.

a)
  1. Reproductive Isolation

b)
  1. Evolution    

c)
  1. Divergence

d)
  1. Speciation