Question 1

What is natural selection?

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When organisms that are BEST adapted/suited  to the environment survive and reproduce the most.

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When a few organisms move to a new location and start a new population.

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When organisms need to adapt to a changing environment to survive.

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When organisms  acquire traits to match a changing environment

Question 2

Sort the following types of reproduction into the correct categories:

Question 3

What three things fit the picture above

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They are Analogous Body structures, Convergent Evolution, and they did NOT share a common ancestor

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They are Homologous Body structures Coevolution and they did NOT share a Common Ancestor.

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They are Anaogous Body Structures, Coevolution, and they shared a common ancestor

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They are Homologous Body Structures, Divergent Evolution and they DID share a common ancestor

Question 4

Populations evolve and change in response to what?

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The changing environment.

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Acquired Traits

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Organisms Choosing which trait works best.

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Artificial Selection

Question 5

When 2 organisms are in a close relationship, like predators and prey or insects and flower, and when 1 organisms changes, the other organism changes in response, that is what type of evolution?

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Coevolution

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Artificial Selection

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Convergent Evolution

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Divergent Evolution

Question 6

What type of evolution is shown?

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Divergent Evolution

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Convergent Evolution

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Use and Disuse

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Coevolution

Question 7

What is carrying capacity?

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The average number of organisms an environment can carry/support at that time.

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The lowest number of organisms the environment has ever carried/supported.

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The highest number of organisms the environment has ever carried/supported.

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The number of organisms that will start dying off when resources run out.

Question 8

What is an important mechanism for new traits to appear and thus evolution to occur, but is not the MAIN mechanism?

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Mutations

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Carrying Capacity

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Limited resources

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Artificial Selection

Question 9

What 3 statements fit the picture above

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They are Homologous Body Structures, Divergent Evolution, and they DID share a common ancestor.

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They are Analogous Body Structures, Convergent Evolution and they did NOT share a common ancestor.

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They are Analogous Body Structures, Coevolution and they DID share a common Ancestor

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They are Homologous Body Structures, Coveolution and they did share a common ancestor.

Question 10

What is Evolution?

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The process of change that occurs over time in a population, driven by natural selection.

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When humans choose which organism will reproduce based on desired traits in the offspring.

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When all organisms adapt because they need to when the environment changes.

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When organisms acquire the traits they need to survive when the environment changes.

Question 11

Punctuated Equilibrium  is the type of evolution that occurs how:

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Long Periods of No change followed by short periods of rapid change.

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Constant rapid change

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Long periods of rapid change followed by short periods of no change

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Constant, slow and steady change

Question 12

Gradualism is the type of evolution that has:

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Constant, slow, and steady change.

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Long Periods of No change followed by short periods of rapid change.

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Long periods of rapid change followed by short periods of no change

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Constant rapid change

Question 13

What is a population?

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A group of interbreeding individuals of a single species.

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All of the different species living in a specific ecosystem.

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Only the consumers in an ecosystem.

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All of the Abiotic and Biotic Factors in an ecosystem

Question 14

When scientists can determine a fossil is 4 billion years old by measuring the radioactive carbon in the fossil, they used what method of dating?

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Absolute Dating

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Relative dating

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Order Dating

Question 15

When 2 organisms are in the same area, but don't interbreed because they have different mating rituals, what type of mechanism is this?

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Behavioral Isolation

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Reproductive Isolation

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Geographical Isolation

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Temporal Isolation

Question 16

When the frequency of a gene increases or decreases simply by chance in a small population, this process is:

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Genetic Drift

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Coevolution

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Natural Selection

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Artificial Selection

Question 17

When 2 organisms are physically separated by geographic barriers that prevents them from interbreeding:

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Geographic Isolation

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Behavioral Isolation

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Reproductive Isolation

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Temporal Isolation

Question 18

When 2 organisms breed, but do not produce a fertile offspring this is an example of:

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Reproductive Isolation

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Geographic Isolation

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Behavioral Isolation

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Temporal Isolation

Question 19

In order to be considered the same species, two organisms must:

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Breed and produce a fertile offspring

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Fill the same niche/job in the ecosystem.

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Live in the same area.

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Have the same general body structures

Question 20

Which of the following is an example of Relative Dating?

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These layers of fossils are older than the other layer

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This layer has 50% of the Carbon-14 remaining in the fossil

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The age of 4 Billion years was determined by Radioactive Dating.

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This fossil is 30 millions years  old

Question 21

What is the only way to get a new gene that has never existed before in a population

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Mutation

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Normal Protein Synthesis

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Sexual Reproduction

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Asexual reproduction

Question 22

Which of the following occurs when a small group from a population moves to a new area to grow a new population

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Genetic Drift - Founder Effect

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Natural Selection

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Genetic Drift - Bottleneck Affect

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Selective Pressures

Question 23

Which of the following would NOT be a selective pressure

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Decomposers

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Water

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Space

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Food

Question 24

What is the greatest contributor to genetic diversity and change in the population?

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Sexual Reproduction

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Asexual Reproduction

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Mutations

Question 25

When two unrelated organisms develop similar traits such as the fins on fish, sharks and dolphins, this is what type of evolution?

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Convergent Evolution

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Coevolution

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Divergent Evolution

Question 26

Adaptive Radiation where organisms started out as one species, but then the environment changed and caused some of the organisms to move to a different environment and some stayed, eventually stopping them from interbreeding is the same as what type of evolution?

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Divergent Evolution

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Convergent Evolution

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Coevolution

Question 27

What is the range of a species?

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The physical areas where a species could be found in it's lifetime

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How many individuals there were in a group.

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Only the outside borders of an area where a species was found.

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Where a species was hunted to extinction.

Question 28

What is Gene Flow?

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When organisms from one population migrate and move to another area and interbreed with the same species or organisms in the new population.

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When the DNA mutates in an organism

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When a few organisms move and migrate to an area that was uninhabited to start a new population.

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When a natural disaster strikes and only a few survivors are left to regrow the population.

Question 29

New Gene Combinations within a population are caused by which of the following in order from most common to less common.

Question 30

A  forest fire wipes out several acres of plants, some of the larger organisms were able to survive, but left only a few to reproduce and rebuild the population.   What process has occurred in this population?

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Genetic Drift - Bottleneck effect

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Artificial Selection

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Natural Selection

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Genetic Drive - Founder Effect

Question 31

Sort the following advantages and disadvantages between sexual and asexual reproduction.

Question 32

How does DNA evidence support evolution?

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It can show which modern organisms have the most DNA In common with ancient fossils and also when mutations occurred that caused 1 species to separate into 2.

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It shows that the only way evolution ever occurs is because of mutations that occur in the DNA code of organisms and not from gene flow.

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It shows that DNA has not changed between organisms through the years.

Question 33

Biological Evolution is

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A permanent change in the frequency of a gene in a given population.

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When organisms have experience a mutation that causes a disease in the offspring.

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A permanent change in the frequency of the number of organisms that can successfully reproduce an offspring.

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When evolution only affects the anatomical structures of an organism and not the physiological processes.

Question 34

Antibiotic Resistance in bacteria and Pesticide resistance in insects are examples of which speed of evolution

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Punctuated Equilibrium

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<P>Gradualism</P>

Question 35

Which of the following statement is NOT true.

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New traits that appear always give the organisms with the trait an advantage.

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Traits that organisms possess can cause them to go extinct.

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Natural Selection can only happen if there is variation in the population, and the variation leads to a difference in survival in the individuals.

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Traits can be both helpful and harmful depending on the environment at the time.

Question 36

Homologous Body structures that structures that are no longer in use and are much smaller in size are called:

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Vestigial Structures

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Extinct body structures

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Analogous Body Structures

Question 37

What is an example of a vestigial structure?

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Eyes on blind cave fish or tails in humans

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Humerus Bones found in Humans and Cats

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Fungal yeast cells that bud and make new cells

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Insect Wings and Bird or Bat Wings

Question 38

How do Vestigial structures support Evolution?

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They support the idea of common ancestors existing among different species.

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They show an exact timeline of when species went extinct.

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They don't give an advantage to organisms that have them.

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They show how every single species were all related at one time.

Question 39

When would evolution NOT happen?

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When a trait does not give an organism an advantage to surviving.

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When there is variety in a population, and the variations allow some organisms to survive better.

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When a trait that an organism has allows it to survive better and pass that gene on to their offspring.

Question 40

Please sort the traits between gene flow and genetic drift

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