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- 1. Multiple ChoiceCharles Darwin was best known in the 19th century for:creating the idea of evolutioncreating the idea of uniformitarianismmaking the idea of evolution acceptable for scientists and the educated general publicall of the above
- 2. Multiple ChoiceWhich of the following is NOT a component of the Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection?competition for food and spacevariation among speciesinheritance of acquired characteristicssurvival and reproduction
- 3. Multiple ChoiceIn science, theories are:absolute and unchangeablethe best explanation for a set of data or observationsa known factan educated guess
- 4. Multiple ChoiceThe strongest evidence for change over a long period of time comes from:DNAfossilsembryo studiesdirect observation of living species
- 5. Multiple ChoiceAccording to the theory of evolution, all organisms alive today evolved from earlier organisms called ancestors.TrueFalse
- 6. Multiple ChoiceHomologous structures provide evidence for convergent evolution.TrueFalse
- 7. Multiple ChoiceEvolution can be defined as the change in the gene pool of a species over time.TrueFalse
- 8. Multiple ChoiceThe Hardy-Weinberg Law predicts that the genetics of a population will remain in equilibrium as long as there is no _____.asexual reproductionvegetative propagationgenetic driftsporulation
- 9. Multiple ChoiceWhen a population is geographically isolated from other populations of the same species, that isolated population can give rise to new species in a process known as ________.sympatric speciationcataclysmic speciationstabilizing speciationallopatric speciation
- 10. Multiple ChoiceThe greatest degree of genetic variability would occur among organisms that reproduce via:sexual recombinationasexual propagationsporulationmitosis
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