WorksheetsQuiz: natural selection & phylogeny
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 26mins
place the correct natural selection
by the graph it represents
What is the definition of fitness?
Two organisms that are closely related would have
very similar DNA sequence
exactly the same DNA sequences
no proteins in common
completely different DNA sequence
In this example of natural selection, what environmental factor is acting as a selection force - or environmental pressure - on the giraffe?
Food is found on tree tops
Having a long neck
Being cursed with beauty
Having spots that act as camouflage
All the animals to the right of the salamander would have the common characteristic of...
Fur
Claws or nails
Lungs
Jaws
Binomial nomenclature is a 2-name naming system based on
Family genus
Class order
genus species
Genus species
If a plant has vascular tissue but no seeds, which of the four plant groups here would it fall into?
Ferns
Cone-bearing plants
Mosses
Flowering plants
________________ is the evolutionary history of a group of related organisms.
Phylogeny
Cladistics
Ecology
Physiolgy
