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#Biology #Origins #Evolution #Classification
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1
Which of these is an example of analogous structures
Dog and human legs
horse legs and insect wings
bird wings and fish fins
Insect wings and bird wings
2
Many scientists consider ________ to be the first cellular coding system
Amino Acids
Proteins
RNA
DNA
3
What is the broadest of all the taxa categories?
Phylum
Domain
Genus
Kingdom
4
What occurs when average traits benefit a population rather than extreme traits?
Disruptive Selection
Stabilizing Selection
Sexual Selection
Directional Selection
5
What important observation did Darwin make on his voyage
Species varied from the life on mainland
Populations stayed the same
No life existed on Galapagos
Life was the same as it was on mainland
6
Population decline causes an extreme genetic drift
Founder
Bottleneck
Stabilizing Effect
Chickenhead
7
How many kids does Mr. E have?
0
1
2
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8
What is the second name in Binomial Nomenclature?
Phylum
Common
Genus
Epithat
9
What modern cells do scientists believe to be close relatives of the Earth's fist cells
Archaea
Amino Acids
Proteins
Eukayotic
10
Early cyanobacteria produced ______ which eventually formed the ozone layer
Carbon
Oxygen
Nitrogen
Helium
11
The _____ assumes that species are unchanging and should be grouped by physical characteristics
Biochemistry Concept
Biological Concept
Phylogenetic Concept
Typological Concept
12
a(n) ______ is a scientist that studies fossils
Botanist
Paleontologist
Carbonoligist
Ross Gellar
13
Archaea are often called _______ because they live in extreme environments
Hood
Extremophiles
Thermotrophic
flourishing bacteria
14
All organisms can be grouped into ______ which range in specificity
BioGroups
14 Kingdoms
taxa
2 main Genera
15
The _______ era began with the Cambrian explosion and ended with mass extinction
Paleozoic
Prehistoric
Mesopotamian
Cenozoic
16
Which statement is true about evolution
it is shown in artificial selection
describes changes over many generations
occurs within a single generation
same as natural selection
17
The process of promoting certain traits by breeding members with those traits is ______
Natural Selection
Ancestral Breeding
Evolution
Artificial Selection
18
Which Kingdom contains a species believed to be more ancient than bacteria?
Eukarya
Plantae
Archaea
Virus
19
Phylogeny is concerned with ...
Common Ancestry
Philosophy
Philanthropy
Common Core
20
Recently evolved traits that do not appear in ancestors
Mutations
Ancestral Traits
Beneficial Traits
Derived Traits
21
What did Darwin's "Tree of Life" analogy suggest
Life came form nonlife
Life derived from trees
Most species are related to one another
Species are derived from ancestral groups
22
The _____ assumes 2 organisms are different species if they are unable to interbreed
Phylogenetic Concept
Typological Concept
Biochemical Concept
Biological Concept
23
Which of these was a feature of Aristotles' Classification System?
divided organisms into plants and animals
emphasized evolutionary changes
borrowed from Darwin's theories
accounted for evolutionary relationships
24
The evolutionary history of a spcies is...
Phylogeny
Taxa
Class
Taxonomy
25
What theory looks at the relationships between ancestral prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells
Relative
Ancestral
Endosymbiont
Early cellular
26
What statement is not true about fossils
Most extinct organisms have been preserved
Bacteria can be preserved
A small percent of extinct organisms have been preserved
Plants can be preserved
27
A morphological adaptation in which one species resembles another is called
Vestigial Structure
mimicry
camouflage
Fitness
28
What is Mr. E's favorite baseball team
He hates Baseball
Nationals
Giants
Dodgers
29
What Kingdom are mushrooms in?
Fungi
Protista
Plantae
Eukarya
30
What theory accounts for why populations can be modified over time?
Fossil Theory
Natural Selection
Ancestral Modification
Artificial Selection
