Biodiversity and Evolution

Where can most of the fossils be found?

• black soil

• granite rock

• lava flows

• sedimentary rock

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Which of the following statements DOES NOT describe evolution?

   

• evolution is continuous.  

• evolution refers to change

• the world is stable and unchanging

• if there is mutation, there is evolution.

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Which pair of animals shows an example of homologous structures?

  

• wings of a butterfly and wings of a bat.

• flipper of a whale and forelimb of a cat.

• Fingers of a human and arm of a starfish

• Tongue of a frog and proboscis of a mosquito

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According to evolutionists, which is the best test to show the relatedness of two organisms?

 

  

• Similarity in development

• Similarity in courting behavior

• Similarity in structure

• Similarity in genomic DNA

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It is the gradual change in species over time is called _______.

 

 

  

• adaptation

• evolution

• natural selection

• nucleotide

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A scientist who studies the history of life on Earth through the fossil record.

 

  

• astrologist

• meteorologist

• paleontologist

• physiologiste

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What is biodiversity?

 

  

• it is environmental science

• it is a subject in biology

• it is variety of life on earth

• distinction in biology subject

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Below is not threat to biodiversity

  

• pollution

• cell phone

• high human population

• natural calamities

Are traces of organisms that lived in the past and were preserved by natural    

   process or catastrophic event

  

• Evolution 

• biodiversity  

• fossil

• anatomy

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Popular “Theory of Evolution” was proposed by

                              

  

• Albert Einstein 

• Charles Darwin

• Isaac Newton

• Dmetri Mendeleev