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- 1. Multiple Choice
In a certain species of plant, the color purple (P) is dominant to the color white (p). According to the Punnett Square, what is the probability of an offspring being white?
25%
0%
75%
100%
- 2. Multiple Choice
In a certain species of plant, the color purple (P) is dominant to the color white (p). According to the Punnett Square, what is the probability of an offspring being white?
50%
25%
75%
100%
- 3. Multiple Choice
“Use it or lose it” - Individuals lose characteristics they do not require and develop those which are useful.This idea was proposed by which of the following scientist?
Charles Darwin
Reginald Punnett
Jean Baptist Lamarck
Gregor Mendel
- 4. Multiple Choice
The process in which organism with variations most suited to their local environment survive and leave more offspring.
Survival of the fittest
Common Descent
Natural Selection
Phenotype
- 5. Multiple Choice
Charles Darwin called the ability of an organism to survive and reproduce in its specific environment
Diversity
Evolution
Adaptation
FItness
- 6. Multiple Choice
Darwin and _______ first suggested a testable and believable mechanism to explain how evolution might occur.
Lamarck
Wallace
Franklin
Mendel
- 7. Multiple Choice
Darwin explained the differences in beak shape among Galapagos finches as being the result of
chance events
adaptations to eating different foods
differences that existed in the colonizing species
inheritance of acquired characteristics
- 8. Multiple Choice
Of the following anatomical structures, which is homologous to the wing of a bat?
The dorsal fin of a shark
The tail of a kangaroo
The tail of a kangaroo
The arm of a human
- 9. Multiple Choice
Which shows the effects of artificial selection?
Moths
Pandas
Dogs
Cheetahs
- 10. Multiple Choice
Biologists have genetic sequences for only about ____ percent of the 2.3 million species that have been mapped into the circle of life.
25
10
5
20
- 11. Multiple Choice
Which color of peppered moth was most common before the Industrial Revolution?
The dark-colored moth.
The light-gray colored moth.
The bright white moth.
Both the light- and dark-colored moths were common.
- 12. Multiple Choice
This theory states that a liquid that was rich in organic compounds and favorable conditions on Earth led to the emergence and growth of life forms
String
Continental Drift
Primordial Soup
Spontaneous Generation
- 13. Multiple Choice
Which of the following is not a part of the DNA structure?
Phospate
Hydrogen Bond
Uracil
Ribose Sugar
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