Evolution

Which of the following would represent a sudden environmental change?

• Wildfire
• Global Warming
• Competition for food
• Desert encroachment 

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Survival of the Fittest and Evolution were proposed by what scientist?

• Charles Darwin
• Albert Einstein
• Steven Hawking
• Isaac Newton

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Which of the following is a fossil?

• a plant that has recently died
• a group of organisms that can reproduce
• a structure or organ that no longer functions
• a trace of an organisms that existed in the past

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what did Charles Darwin observe in finch populations of the Galapagos Islands off the coast of South America?

• different species on different islands
• all species on one of the islands
• identical species on all the islands
• the same species as North America

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____ is when members of a species that are best suited for their environment survive and reproduce at a higher rate than other members of the species

• natural selection
• artificial selection
• speciation
• adaptation

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Which is necessary for speciation to occur?

• adaptation
• mass extinction
• isolation
• acquired traits

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Which of the following pairs of terms is not related?

• Natural selection- Darwins Finches

• Analogous organs- Convergent evolution

• Adaptive radiation-Convergent evolution

• Directional selection- Industrial melanism

Antibiotic resistance in bacteria can be attributed to which among the following

• Competition

• Natural Selection

• Mutation

• Coevolution

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This scientist came up with the idea of natural selection.

• Jean Baptiste Lamarck
• Gregor Mendel
• Charles Darwin
• Thomas Malthus

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Structures with the same parts have different functions; suggests that organisms share a common ancestry

• vestigial structures
• homologous structures
• adaptive radiation
• fossil

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