WorksheetsWritten Test No. 4 The Process of Evolution (ELS)
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 15mins
Which of the following is NOT true about evolution?
Offspring inherit favorable traits from their parents.
All organisms of a particular species are identical so they can breed.
Survival of one’s species may depend on their ability to produce offspring.
Organisms that are best adapted to their environment could breed and most
likely to produce offspring.
What describes when the last individual specie of an organism dies?
Evolution
Extinction
Exfoliation
Natural Selection
Which of the following scientist arrive at the same conclusion with Charles
Darwin?
Lamarck
Lerlerc
Plato
Wallace
The similarities in structures in a butterfly and a bird’s wing is what evidence
of evolution?
Homologous structure
Analogous structure
Vestigal structure
Genetic structure
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?
Protect wildlife habitat and educate people.
Appreciate animal exploitation and eat exotic foods.
Adopt an endangered animal without legal actions on it.
Catch animals and sell them on higher price to gain profits.
Which of the following is a grandfather of a great naturalist and worked with the
idea of a transmutation of species in 1796?
Charles Darwin
Erasmus Darwin
Carolus Linnaeus
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
What is a kind of genealogy that follows a lineage’s evolutionary relationships
through time?
Phylogeny
Cladistics
Fossil Record
Radioactive dating
In simple phylogenic representation of the five-kingdom system, what are the
most primitive group of living organisms give rise to the Kingdom Protists?
Monerans
Animals
Plants
Fungi
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?
The Classifications of Mammals
The Evolution of Man
Animal Classification
Tree of Life
Which of the following is true about viruses?
Viruses belong to the Kingdom Fungi.
Viruses belong to the Kingdom Plantae.
Viruses belong to the Kingdom Animalia.
Viruses does not belong to any kingdom because it’s not a living thing.
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.
(a) is the modern way of taxonomy based on the many hypothesis
of evolutionary history of organisms.
(a) is a continuous process and still happening and will
continue to occur.
(a) is the change in allelic frequency in population of species.
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)
TRUE or FALSE. Homologous structures are structure with similar functions.
(a)
TRUE or FALSE. Fossils are the only records that can prove that evolution occurred.
(a)
TRUE or FALSE. The organisms that have stronger and intelligent traits survive.
(a)
TRUE or FALSE. When an organism does not change, it does not evolve.
(a)
TRUE or FALSE. Evolution in population is brought by many different agents such
genetic drift, gene flow, mutation and nonrandom mating
(a)
