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- 1. Multiple Choice
The process of biological change in a population over time is called...
Evolution
Natural Selection
Creationism
Intelligent Design
- 2. Multiple Choice
Which type of evolution affects many populations?
Microevolution
Macroevolution
Gene Flow
Genetic Drift
- 3. Multiple Choice
Who was the first person to organize life on a scale of increasing complexity?
Aristotle
Carl Linneaus
Charles Darwin
Jean Baptiste Lamarck
- 4. Multiple Choice
What is taxonomy?
Classifying organisms based on their age
Classifying organisms based on their anatomy
Classifying organisms based on their size
Classifying organisms based on their diet
- 5. Multiple Choice
Who believed that competition for resources would create a "struggle for existence"?
Thomas Malthus
Georges Cuvier
James Hutton
Jean Baptiste Lamarck
- 6. Multiple Choice
The idea that the same processes that have happened in the past are happening now and will continue to happen in the future is called...
Uniformitarianism
Gradualism
Natural Selection
Catastrophism
- 7. Multiple Choice
Why were Lamarck's ideas on evolution incomplete? (Select ALL that apply)
Individuals don't evolve, populations do
Adaptation is caused by random mutation
Only the fittest species will survive and reproduce
Species have a tendency towards perfection
- 8. Multiple Choice
How are Intelligent Design and Creationism similar?
Both believe the Earth is 6,000 years old
Both believe that God created all living things
Both believe that species do not change over time
Both believe in evolutionary theory
- 9. Multiple Choice
Natural Selection states that...
Genetic mutation is random
Organisms will change to adapt to their environment
The best adapted organisms will live longer and reproduce more than others
Organisms are naturally selected by God to reproduce
- 10. Multiple Choice
Survival of the Fittest states that...
Only the strongest organisms will survive
Only the fastest organisms will survive
Only the largest organisms will survive
Only the best adapted organisms will survive
- 11. Multiple Choice
Overproduction of offspring creates...
Competition
Gene Flow
Migration
Genetic Drift
- 12. Multiple Choice
Which of the following is NOT a source of genetic variation?
Random Mutation
Crossing-Over during Meiosis
Migration
Genetic Drift
- 13. Multiple Choice
The combined alleles of all individuals in a population are called its...
DNA
Gene Pool
Genome
Genetic Code
- 14. Multiple Choice
According to the principle of Descent with Modification, what happens to harmful traits, in a population, over time?
They become less common
They become more common
They increase allele frequency
They decrease genetic drift
- 15. Multiple Choice
Mutations...
Are always a bad thing
Cannot change a large population
Only occur in microevolution
Increase genetic variation within a population
- 16. Multiple Choice
Genetic Drift causes...
Increased genetic variation
Loss of genetic variation
Population growth
Population decline
- 17. Multiple Choice
Gene Flow...
Increases genetic variation
Decreases genetic variation
Increases population size
Decreases population size
- 18. Multiple Choice
Which of the following will NOT cause genetic equilibrium?
Population is small
Random mating
No migration
No mutation
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