Mechanism of Evolution

The person who introduced natural selection as evolution process which hypothesize that all forms of life came from a common ancestry.

• Charles Darwin

• Aristotle

• Isaac Newton

• Albert Einstein

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This theory summarizes the famous evolutionary context “survival of the fittest.”

• Natural selection

• Bottleneck effect

• Hardy-Weinberg Principle

• Selective breeding

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The two general types of mutations are:

• RNA mutations and chromosomal mutations

• DNA mutations and chromosomal mutations

• DNA mutations and RNA mutations

• None of the above

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This mechanism refers to the change in the genetic information in an organism.

• Natural selection

• Artificial selection

• General drift

• Mutation

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The process by which organisms change over time.

• Diversity

• Evolution

• Descent

• Unity

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What mechanism of evolution is this?

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• Natural selection

• Artificial selection

• Genetic drift

• Mutation

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In what situation does artificial selection takes place?

• Susceptibility testing of microorganisms against antibiotics

• The different finches found by Darwin in the Galapagos

• Cultivations of new varieties of rice plants

• Elongated neck of a giraffe

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What happens when a population is in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium?

• Evolving

• Not evolving

• allele frequencies will remain constant

• none of the above

What mechanism of evolution is this?

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• Artificial selection

• Genetic drift

• Mutation

• Recombination

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It is a mechanism in which a random event causes species to become extinct.

• Artificial selection

• Genetic drift

• Mutation

• Recombination