Evolution Introduction Microevolution and Macroevolution
  • 1. What concept in evolution says all livings are related and share common ancestors?
A) descent with modification
B) tree of life
C) microevolution
D) natural selection
E) macroevolution
  • 2. Biological evolution involves what type of changes in organisms over time?
A) gene frequencies
B) natural changes
C) adaptation changes
D) genetic changes
E) microgenetic change
  • 3. What is the term that means species remain the same for very long periods of time.
A) stasis
B) macroevolution
C) lineage-splitting
D) microevolution
E) living fossils
  • 4. What type of evolution can only be seen from a study of the whole history of life?
A) extinction
B) macroevolution
C) microevolution
D) stasis
E) lineage-splitting
  • 5. What is another term for lineage-splitting?
A) microevolution
B) speciation
C) extinction
D) character development
E) stasis
  • 6. Mutation, genetic drift, migration, natural selection and what other factor are needed for macroevolution to occur?
A) extinction
B) lineage-splitting
C) lots of time
D) genetic changes
E) character changes
  • 7. Small scale evolution within a single population is called...?
A) speciation
B) microevolution
C) extinction
D) genetic drift
E) macroevolution
  • 8. The change in allele frequency within a population is...?
A) microevolution
B) macroevolution
C) natural selection
D) genetic drift
E) emigration
  • 9. A group of organisms that can interbred and so share a gene pool are called a ...?
A) offspring
B) lineage
C) emigrants
D) population
E) community
  • 10. Organisms exit a population, taking their genes with them. This is called...?
A) migration
B) immigration
C) genetic drift
D) natural selection
E) emigration
  • 11. Organisms enter a population, bringing their genes with them. This is called...?
A) natural selection
B) immigration
C) lineage-splitting
D) speciation
E) macroevolution
  • 12. When organisms with advantageous traits escape predation, survive and reproduce passing on their traits, this is called...?
A) speciation
B) emigration
C) natural selection
D) immigration
E) gene flow
  • 13. Random changes that happen in genes are called...?
A) genetic drift
B) mutations
C) gene flow
D) speciation
E) natural selection
  • 14. When organisms with disadvantageous traits die out early before much, if any reproduction, this is called...?
A) gene flow
B) macroevolution
C) natural selection
D) population change
E) speciation
  • 15. Random changes that happen to the number of a particular allele within a population during reproduction this is called...?
A) speciation
B) natural selection
C) emigration
D) genetic drift
E) gene flow
  • 16. If the number of red alleles in a beetle population is 60% one year and the next year it is 85% this is an example of what type of evolution?
A) lineage-splitting
B) microevolution
C) speciation
D) macroevolution
E) extinction
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