BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION

1. What is evolution?

A. Change over time

B. A change of species

C. Something that just happens

D. None of above

2. What does the fossil record show about the history of species on earth?

A. Certain fossils appear only in older rocks

B. It shows animals that have been extinct

C. The structure of the organisms

D. None of above

3. The information about past life is called what.

A. Relative frequency

B. Fossil record

C. A and B

C. Genetic equilibrium

D. NONE OF ABOVE

4. What is definition of fossil?

A. Bones of animals

B. The remains of species that have past away.

C. A and B

D NONE OF ABOVE

5. 2 What scientific explanation can account for the diversity of life?

A. An explanation on of phenomena that have occurred

B. A collection of scientific facts on observations and hypothesis

C. A huge body of evidence

D. None of above

ALL OF ABOVE

6. 1. What is endosymbiotic theory?

A. Eukaryotic formed from a symbiosis among several different prokaryotic organisms.

B. Relationship in which two species live closely together.

C. Single-celled prokaryotic organisms that resemble modern bacteria.

D None of the above

7. What are the names of scientists who study fossils?

A. Archeologists

B. Paleontologists

C. Geologists

D. All of above

8. 1. What is the homologous body structure?

A. The structure of the Greek word of “homos” meaning “same,” and legein, meaning, “say

B. The structures of different mature forms but develop from the same embryonic tissues.

Structures of bones all develop from the same clumps of cells in growing embryos.

D. All of the above

9. 1. Who proposed that by selective use or disuse of organs, organisms acquired or lost certain traits during their lifetime?

A. Charles Darwin

B. Alfred Wallace

C. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

D. Charles Lyell

10. How do fossil forms?

A. In change over time

B. In sedimentary rocks

C. Preserved under remains

D. ALL OF ABOVE

11. 1. The result in changes in the inherited characteristics of population?

A. Adaptation

B. Natural selection

C. Artificial selection

D. All of the above

12. 1. Is homologous structure type of evidence for the evolution of living things?

Yes

NO

Biological Evolution