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