Evolution Test

A flash flood carried a raft of Amazon ants away from their original population. There is enough distance between the two groups, that they will never meet in nature again. What type of reproductive barrier is this?

• behavioral isolation
• temporal isolation 
• gametic isolation
• geographic isolation 

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What is a species? 

• A group of organisms that can mate with each other and produce fertile offspring. 
• A group of organisms that can mate and produce offspring even if those offspring are infertile.
• A group of organisms that genetically are very different from each other. 
• Indivual organisms that live in the same environment. 

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What is genetic drift?

• The movement of genes in/out of a population

• A small, random change in the DNA

• Any change in the allelic frequencies in a population that is due to chance

• The process in which humans select for or against particular features in organisms

Match the types of natural selection!

• Directional Selection

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• Disruptive Selection

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• Stabilizing Selection

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Which of the following must occur for speciation to happen?

• geographic isolation
• reproductive isolation
• temporal isolation
• behavioral isolation

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When has speciation occurred?

• When populations no longer look the same
• When populations no longer have the same frequency of alleles
• When populations are living in different environments
• When populations can no longer interbreed

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If finches with large beaks and finches with small beaks increase in a population while finches with average sized beaks decreases, which pattern of natural selection has occurred?

• Directional selection
• Disruptive selection 
• Stabilizing selection

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Genetic drift, like bottlenecks, are different from natural selection in that they are:

• Random

• on Purpose

• Controlled by humans

Which of the following is NOT an example of natural selection? 

• People selectively breeding hamsters.
• Insect populations developing resistance to certain pesticides.
• Bacteria becoming resistant to antibiotics.
• Male birds of certain species developing colorful feathers to attract female mates.

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Which species’ DNA is most similar to the DNA of the toothed whale? 

• Hippopotamus 
• Baleen Whale
• Grazing Mammals
• Camels

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