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