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- 1. Multiple Choice
For a mutation to affect evolution, it must:
Provide a benefit to the organism.
Involve more than one chromosome.
Be able to get passed from parent to offspring.
Be neutral-neither help nor harm the organism.
- 2. Multiple Choice
What is evolution?
An increase in complexity over time.
The tendency of species to improve over time.
Any change to the genetic composition of a population.
All of the above.
- 3. Multiple Choice
What distinguishes bacteria from archae?
Archaean DNA is made up a different set of nucleotide bases than is bacterial DNA.
Archaean cell walls are made up of different compounds than are bacterial cell walls.
All archaea live in extreme enviornments, and bacteria don't.
All archaea are unicellular, and some bacterial are multicellular.
- 4. Multiple Choice
To which organism(s) on the tree is the colelacanth most closely related?
Cichild and shark equally.
Frog
Frog and lungfish equally.
Lungfish
- 5. Multiple Choice
"An organism that is closely related to the group you're interested in, but not a part of it. A wat to establish a basis of comparison for an trait analysis." This is a definition of:
An outgroup
An ancestor
A marker
A stem group
- 6. Multiple Choice
Which is more convincing evidence, DNA or physical features?
DNA
Physical Features
- 7. Multiple Choice
True/False? "The change from a T to a C at position 3 caused all of the changes that exist between the cichild and colelacanth/frog."
True, because that is the only column that has a change between positions.
False, because more mutations can come later on.
- 8. Multiple Choice
A.vinosum is most closely related to which organism(s)?
M.activorans, and A.vinosum
T.thermophilus
S.solfataricus, and P.aerophilium
T.thermophilus and D.radiodurans.
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