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Evidence of Evolution

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32 questions
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  • Q1
    Which concept describes competition for limited resources in a population?
    Struggle for existence
    Adaptation
    Homology
    Natural selection
    30s
  • Q2
    Who influenced Darwin's idea of the struggle for existence by arguing that populations grow faster than resources?
    Malthus
    Lamarck
    Wallace
    Lyell
    30s
  • Q3
    Which term refers to any heritable characteristic that increases an organism's survival and reproduction?
    Variation
    Speciation
    Fitness trait
    Adaptation
    30s
  • Q4
    What does fitness describe in evolutionary terms?
    Size of an organism
    Speed of adaptation
    Strength of an organism
    Ability to survive and reproduce
    30s
  • Q5
    Which process did Darwin name as the mechanism by which organisms with favorable variations survive and leave more offspring?
    Genetic drift
    Natural selection
    Gene flow
    Artificial selection
    30s
  • Q6
    Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of natural selection?
    It depends on variation
    It leads to differential reproductive success
    It always produces perfect adaptations
    It acts on inherited traits
    30s
  • Q7
    Which analogy correctly describes artificial selection?
    Environment selects the fittest
    Random genetic changes
    Farmers breed crops for desired traits
    Mutation selection by gravity
    30s
  • Q8
    Who independently conceived a theory almost identical to Darwin's natural selection?
    Lamarck
    Mendel
    Huxley
    Wallace
    30s
  • Q9
    Which evidence shows that modern whales evolved from land mammals?
    Homologous heart structure
    Feather imprints
    Vestigial limbs in dolphins
    Bird beaks
    30s
  • Q10
    Which technology allowed geologists to determine Earth's age of approximately 4.5 billion years?
    Carbon dating
    Thermoluminescence
    Radioactive dating
    Dendrochronology
    30s
  • Q11
    What field studies the distribution of organisms over time and space?
    Taxonomy
    Embryology
    Biogeography
    Ecology
    30s
  • Q12
    Which are homologous structures?
    Insect wing and bird wing
    Leaves of different plant species
    Fins of fish and flippers of whales
    Eyes of humans and camera lenses
    30s
  • Q13
    Which are analogous structures?
    Bat wing and bird wing
    Human arm and whale flipper
    Insect wing and bird wing
    Forelimbs of all mammals
    30s
  • Q14
    What did Hutton and Lyell propose about Earth's history?
    It's static
    It's shaped by catastrophes only
    It changed gradually over deep time
    It's extremely young
    30s
  • Q15
    Which structure is the remnant nictitating membrane in the eye?
    Auricular muscle
    Darwin’s tubercle
    Plica semilunaris
    Plantaris muscle
    30s

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