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What is the reproductive barrier that occurs when organisms mate at different times?
Mechanical Isolation
Temporal Isolation
Gamete Isolation
Behavioral Isolation
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What allows individuals of a species to successfully mate and produce viable and fertile offspring?
Selective Pressure
Adaptive Radiation
Temporal Isolation
Genetic Compatibility
3
Older fossils will
have less radioactive carbon present
BOTH blue and red are true
have more radioactive carbon present
be deeper in the stata (layers) of the earth
4
What is the term for the type of speciation which gives rise to many new species?
Adaptive Radiation
Homologous Structures
Transitional Fossils
Vestigial Structures
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Which type of natural selection favors one extreme trait?
Directional Selection
Disruptive Selection
Selective Pressure
Stabilizing Selection
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What is measured by the number of fertile offspring produced by an individual?
Mutation
Speciation
Fitness
Adaptation
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Select ALL statements that are true for genes.
lead to traits
are segments of a DNA strand
code for proteins
can be mutated
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In order for natural selection to occur (select ALL that apply)
the differences between individuals need to be inherited
a population needs to have diversity
some individuals need to be better suited to the environment than others
there needs to be limited resources and competition
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Where did Charles Darwin make observations that led to the Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection?
Galapagos Islands
Grand Canyon
Great Barrier Reef
Machu Picchu
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Similar traits that evolved from a common ancestor, such as the assortment of bones in the human arm and the bat wing
homologous structures
fossil characteristics
analogous structures
vestigial structures
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Select all statements that are TRUE.
White mice have a bad genetic mutation.
Brown mice will likely pass along their genes to the next generation.
The brown mice have a beneficial genetic mutation.
Natural selection is occuring.
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What is the term for structures that were once functional for evolutionary ancestors but no longer serve a purpose?
Analogous Structures
Transitional Fossils
Homologous Structures
Vestigial Structures
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Who traveled on the HMS Beagle for a 5-year voyage around the world?
Galileo Galilei
Isaac Newton
Albert Einstein
Charles Darwin
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Populations evolve due to
mating rituals
organisms working to have new traits.
random genetic mutations that lead to beneficial adaptations
genetic consistency
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In order to be considered part of the same species, organisms
must have nonviable offspring
must look identical
must have fertile offspring
must look different
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Which is the correct order of organisms evolving on planet earth?
eubacteria, archaebacteria, eukaryotes
eukaryotes, eubacteria
archaebacteria, eubacteria, eukaryotes
eubacteria, prokaryotes
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The type of natural selection shown in this image.
disruptive
stabilizing
random
directional
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The type of population growth shown in this graph.
exponential
carrying
limited
logistic
