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Written Test No. 4 The Process of Evolution (ELS)

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which of the following is NOT true about evolution?

a)

Offspring inherit favorable traits from their parents.

b)

All organisms of a particular species are identical so they can breed.

c)

Survival of one’s species may depend on their ability to produce offspring.

d)

Organisms that are best adapted to their environment could breed and most
likely to produce offspring.

2.

What describes when the last individual specie of an organism dies?

a)

Evolution

b)

Extinction

c)

Exfoliation

d)

Natural Selection

3.

Which of the following scientist arrive at the same conclusion with Charles
Darwin?

a)

Lamarck

b)

Lerlerc

c)

Plato

d)

Wallace

4.

The similarities in structures in a butterfly and a bird’s wing is what evidence
of evolution?

a)

Homologous structure

b)

Analogous structure

c)

Vestigal structure

d)

Genetic structure

5.

In the present days, a lot of animals undergo extinction due to some conditions
like failure to adapt to the environment and habitat destruction. How can we help
to reduce extinction of animals?

a)

Protect wildlife habitat and educate people.

b)

Appreciate animal exploitation and eat exotic foods.

c)

Adopt an endangered animal without legal actions on it.

d)

Catch animals and sell them on higher price to gain profits.

6.

Which of the following is a grandfather of a great naturalist and worked with the
idea of a transmutation of species in 1796?

a)

Charles Darwin

b)

Erasmus Darwin

c)

Carolus Linnaeus

d)

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

7.

What is a kind of genealogy that follows a lineage’s evolutionary relationships
through time?

a)

Phylogeny

b)

Cladistics

c)

Fossil Record

d)

Radioactive dating

8.

In simple phylogenic representation of the five-kingdom system, what are the
most primitive group of living organisms give rise to the Kingdom Protists?

a)

Monerans

b)

Animals

c)

Plants

d)

Fungi

9.

What concept is proposed by Charles Darwin on his On the Origin of Species
that demonstrates how all the species originated from one or more species?

a)

The Classifications of Mammals

b)

The Evolution of Man

c)

Animal Classification

d)

Tree of Life

10.

Which of the following is true about viruses?

a)

Viruses belong to the Kingdom Fungi.

b)

Viruses belong to the Kingdom Plantae.

c)

Viruses belong to the Kingdom Animalia.

d)

Viruses does not belong to any kingdom because it’s not a living thing.

11.

Carolus Linnaeus known as the “father of (a)   ” was a
Swedish botanist who formally classified some organisms and revolutionized modern
taxonomy and implemented a standardized binomial naming system for plants and
animals.

12.

(a)   is the modern way of taxonomy based on the many hypothesis
of evolutionary history of organisms.

13.

(a)   is a continuous process and still happening and will
continue to occur.

14.

(a)   is the change in allelic frequency in population of species.

15.

All life on earth can be traced back to its evolutionary existence through a
common ancestor. The tree of life concept proposed by _______ ______ on his On
the Origin of Species
demonstrates how all the species originated from one or more
species.

(a)  

16.

TRUE or FALSE. Homologous structures are structure with similar functions.


(a)  

17.

TRUE or FALSE. Fossils are the only records that can prove that evolution occurred.


(a)  

18.

TRUE or FALSE. The organisms that have stronger and intelligent traits survive.


(a)  

19.

TRUE or FALSE. When an organism does not change, it does not evolve.


(a)  

20.

TRUE or FALSE. Evolution in population is brought by many different agents such
genetic drift, gene flow, mutation and nonrandom mating


(a)