- 1. Evolution that happens between species as a response to changes in each other is called...?
A) extinction
B) coevolution
C) punctuated equilibrium
D) convergent evolution
E) adaptive radiation
- 2. Lodgepole pine trees cones evolving to be less likely to be eaten by red squirrels in some areas and cross billed birds in other areas is an example of what type of evolution?
A) coevolution
B) adaptive radiation
C) convergent evolution
D) punctuated equilibrium
E) extinction
- 3. Long periods of species stability that is interrupted by periods of rapid change is what type of evolution?
A) extinction
B) converget evolution
C) adaptive radiation
D) punctuated equilibrium
E) coevolution
- 4. What type of evolution is it when organisms evolve similar body structures, not because they are closely related, but because they live in similar environments where those structures work well?
A) punctuated equilibrium
B) adaptive radiation
C) extinction
D) convergent evolution
E) coevolution
- 5. What type of evolution is illustrated by many species developing from one common ancestral species?
A) coevolution
B) extinction
C) convergent evolution
D) punctuated equilibrium
E) adaptive radiation
- 6. What type of mimicry involves a species mimicking a poisonous species for protection from predators?
A) convergent
B) Darwinian
C) Mullerian
D) Batesian
E) mutualistic
- 7. Bees and wasps that resemeble each other with bands of black and yellow show what kind of mimicry?
A) adaptive
B) Mullerian
C) mutualistic
D) convergent
E) Batesian
- 8. What term is used for species that develop similar body structures due to living in similar environments but they do not live in the same part of the world?
A) Mullerian
B) sympatry
C) mutualism
D) Batesian
E) allopatry
- 9. In what part of a population is punctuated equilibrium more likely to happen?
A) On the edges of the population, possibly where a group migrated away from the main population
B) Where the population is facing extinction.
C) In the main body of the population where there are more organisms for natural selelection to work on and change quickly.
D) Where the population has mechanical isolation
E) Where the population has gametic isolation
- 10. What is the basis for reclassifying the New World American vulture as more closely related to the stork than to the Old World African vulture?
A) body structures
B) reproductive methods
C) morphology
D) DNA analysis
E) The behavior of urinating on the legs to cool the body.
- 11. South America Emerald Tree Boas and Green Tree Boas from Australia are an example of what type of evolution?
A) convergent
B) coevolution
C) mimicry
D) adaptive radiation
E) punctuated equilibrium
- 12. What was the selection pressure that caused adaptive radiation in the Galapagos finches?
A) Type of material available for building nests.
B) Type of mates available
C) type of food available
D) Type of evolution acting on the finches.
- 13. Enlarged, rectangular fringed scales on the toes of "Jesus" lizards in the New World and on the Hydrosaurus lizards of the Old World is an example of what type of evolution?
A) convergent evolution
B) punctuated eqilibrium
C) adaptive radiation
D) coevolution
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