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Evolution Through Natural Selection

Total questions: 16

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

It is the process by which new species or populations of living things develop from pre-existing forms through successive generations.

a)

Retraction

b)

Extinction

c)

Revolution

d)

Evolution

2.

They are the first who wrote down their ideas, with the philosophers Anaximander and Empedocle

a)

Egyptian

b)

Greeks

c)

Chinese

d)

Filipinos

3.

He is a french philosopher and biologist who had his theory of origins which proposed spontaneous generation and extinction

a)

Georges-Louis Leclerc

b)

Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupetui

c)

Erasmus Darwin

d)

Carolus Linnaeus

4.

Who is the proponent of The Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection?

a)

August Weismann

b)

Charles Darwin

c)

Gregor Mendel

d)

Hugo de Vries

5.

It is the combined principles of genetics with Darwin's natural selection

a)

Synthetic Theory of Evolution

b)

Lamarckian Evolution

c)

Creationism

d)

Theistic Evolution

6.

Mendel's work on pea plants earned him the title as _______

a)

Father of Pea's

b)

Father of Genetics

c)

Father of Seed

d)

Father of Observation

7.

According to Weinsmann, _________ are reproductive tissues or cells that produce gametes

a)

Samotaplasm

b)

Somatoplasm

c)

Gernplasm

d)

Germplasm

8.

A type of evolution wherein species that share a common ancestor but live in diffirent places develop similar traits

a)

Parallel Evolution

b)

Coevolution

c)

Convergent Evolution

d)

Adaptive Radiation

9.

He was the one who first coined the term mutations

a)

Thomas Hunt Morgan

b)

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

c)

Gregor Mendel

d)

Hugo de Vries

10.

Any variation that can help an organism survive is called ________

a)

Competition

b)

Belonging

c)

Adaption

d)

Mutation

11.

It is the independent evolution of similar features in species of different periods or epochs in time

(a)  

12.

It represents the evolutionary pattern in which species sharing a common ancestry become more distinct due to differential selection pressure which gradually leads to speciation over an evolutionary time period.

(a)  

13.

A common phenomenon that occurs when independent species develop similar traits while evolving in the same environment.

(a)  

14.

Two conclusions Darwin Theory proposed from his theory of Evolution by Natural Selection

(a)  

15.

Two conclusions Darwin Theory proposed from his theory of Evolution by Natural Selection

(a)  

16.

Explain why Darwin's Theory of Evolution is the best known theory on evolution. (5 points)

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