Topic Review: Evolution
Quiz by NYSED Living Environment
High School
Living Environment (1996)
New York State Learning Standards
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- Q1Which two factors could lead to the evolution of a species over time?overproduction of offspring and no variationstruggle for survival and fossilizationchanges in the genes of body cells and extinctionchanges in the genes of sex cells and survival of the fittest60s4.3
- Q2Scientists at Penn State have sequenced the DNA of the extinct woolly mammoth. The data suggested that the woolly mammoth was more closely related to present-day elephants than previously believed. Which statement could account for the similarities between the woolly mammoth and present-day elephants?Both animals have identical genetic information.Common gene mutations were caused by agents such as industrial chemicals and radiation.Selective breeding results in offspring better able to survive.Present-day species developed from earlier, different species.60s4.3
- Q3In addition to the appearance of the antifreeze gene, icefi sh have also been found to have DNA sequences similar to the DNA sequences in hemoglobin genes of other fi sh species. However, these DNA sequences are not complete and therefore not functional in icefi sh. This evidence makes it likely thaticefish ancestors had hemoglobinicefish will soon produce offspring with hemoglobinhemoglobin is a molecule made by some fish that do not have genes for itsoon all fish will stop producing hemoglobin60s4.3
- Q4Genetic recombination, production of more offspring than can survive, and struggling with the challenges of the environment are all concepts associated withselective breedinggenetic engineeringmitotic divisionnatural selection60s4.3
- Q5An example of a population in which evolution could take place in a relatively short period of time could beoak trees in a stable ecosystempathogenic bacteria exposed to antibioticselephants living in a wildlife preservealgae grown under constant conditions60s4.3
- Q6Butterflies exposed to radiation leaking from a damaged nuclear power plant in Japan have been observed to have malformed legs, antennae, and wings. For future butterfly generations to have these similar structural abnormalities, gene mutations must be present in the affected butterflies'body cellswing cellsantenna cellssex cells60s4.3
- Q7The process of sexual reproduction is an important part of the process of evolution. One reason for this is that meiosis and fertilization directly produce many newvariationsspeciesantigenspathogens60s4.3
- Q8This behavior continues to be present in the rabbitfish population becauseboth fish could not fit into the small spaces in the coralthe fish species needed to become alert to survivethis behavior was learned by observing other fish speciesthis behavior increases their chance of survival60s4.3
