Biology Final - Evolution
Quiz to study for Biology Final
- 1.Which of the following is NOT evidence supporting evolution?
- A.
Comparative Anatomy
- B.
Comparative Homology
- C.
Comparative Embryology
- D.
Comparative Biochemsitry
- E.
Fossil Evidence
- 2.What is the name of the principle that states, "More recently deposted strata are on top of older strata of sedimentary rock"?
- A.
Principle of Lithification
- B.
Principle of Layerification
- C.
Principle of Sedimentaration
- D.
Principle of Superposition
- E.
Principle of Lathification
- 3.Which of the following is NOT a principle of natural selection?
- A.
The more advantages you have, the more likely you will survive/reproduce
- B.
More individuals are born than can survive
- C.
There are inherited variations in the population
- D.
Individuals with variations that give them an advantage are more likely to survive and reproduce
- E.
More individuals in the next generation will have the advantageous genes and trait
- 4.In this type of natural selection graph, the weak are eleimated/less suited to their environment, and the graph moves in one direction.
- A.
Directional Selection
- B.
Stabilizing Selection
- C.
Disruptive Selection
- 5.Two gene pools are located in different areas of the globe. This would be an example of...
- A.
Divergent Evolution
- B.
Geographic Evolution
- C.
Reproductive Evolution
- 6.Coevolution is....
- A.
When two populations grow in the same area
- B.
When one population is wiped out by another population
- C.
When two populations mimic their evolutionary patterns
- D.
When one population grows in response to the other
- 7.When extinction occurs and there is a period of rapid speciazation, this is called...
- A.
Speciazation
- B.
Adaptive Radiation
- C.
Covergent Evolution
- D.
Punctuated Equilibrium
- E.
Inferring Phylogeny
- 8.What is taxonomy?
- A.
The science of evolution
- B.
The science of speciazation
- C.
The science of classification
- D.
The science of fossil recording
- 9.What do taxonomists do?
- A.
They group together species into genus based homologies based on evidence from the fossil record
- B.
They classify a bunch of living things and divide them into kingdoms based on their differences
- C.
They group together species based on their similiarities and differences
- D.
They group together living things based on their characteristics and past phylogeny
- 10.What does a phylogentic tree show?
- A.
The link between one organism to the next
- B.
The history of several populations, and which population evolved from what
- C.
A comparison of relationships between many populations
- D.
Evolutionary relationships based on a variety of types of evidence
- 11.In order for the earliest life forms to evolve, what must been there first?
- A.
Prokaryotic Cells - they couldn't use respiration at all, formed ER and nuclear envelope, had to eat aerobic heterotrophs to evolve
- B.
Prokaryotic Cells - they couldn't use respiration without oxygen, formed ER and nuclear envelope, had to eat aerobic heterotrophs to evolve
- C.
Eukaryotic Cells - used mitochondria and chloroplast to make oxygen, thus give the cells oxygen to use aerobic respiration
- D.
Eukaryotic Cells - came before prokaryotic cells, first made oxygen using ER and nuclear envelope, then ate aerobic heterotrophs which made prokaryotic cells
- 12.Vestingial structures had no....
- A.
Tail
- B.
Homologous structures
- C.
Backbone
- D.
Arms
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