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What is natural selection?
Process of fossilizing a plant or animal
Process by which plants synthesize sunlight into food
Process of cell division
Process where individuals in a population survive or die
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What is the theory of gradualism?
Modern events that are similar to past events
Slow changes to the Earth's surface
Slow changes made by a species of animals
Quick changes made to Earth's surface
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What is a fossil?
Petrified remains of living things
Historic bones
Historic remains kept in museums
Human remains
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What is Evolution?
Theory that human beings came from gorillas
Changes in an entire ecosystem in a few weeks.
Changes over time in a population
Theory of religion.
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Define bottleneck effect
Movement of alleles between populations of animals
A factor that is an extreme contraction in animal population
A factor that affects preferences of animal species
A factor that is a random fluctuation in frequency of traits
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What are examples of evolution?
Frogs and Butterflies
Galapagos birds and Antibiotic resistance
Pigs and Sheep
Foxes and raccoons raised for fur
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What is antibiotic resistance?
Plants develop a resistance towards growth additives
The human immune system rejects antibiotics
Antibiotics causing cancer in users
Microorganisms develop a resistance to antibiotics
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What is the salt and pepper moth study?
Human industrialization on the moth population
Pollution killing moths
Human breeding for desired color in moths
When trees changed color, moths did too
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What is gene flow?
Random fluctuation in frequency of traits
A large group of genes associated with a river
Extreme contraction in populations of animals
Movement of alleles between populations
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What are the major types of mutations?
Deletion, Insertion, Substitute, Frameshaft
Gene Flow, Genetic Drift, Founder Effect
Negative, Neutral, Positive
Cancerous, Benign, Malignant, Cutaneous
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What are the theories involved in Evolution?
Photoperiodism, Dexiothetism, Paratype
Vicariance, Stenochoria, Range state
Catastrophism, Gradualism, Uniformitarianism
Biological target, Keystone species, Durophagy
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What are the limitations of fossils?
Archaeologists tend to destroy them before seeing them
They can only form in dry conditions
They usually only form in wet conditions on hard tissue
They only occur in a decade
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What truly defines a "domesticated" animal?
Its dependence on human beings
Complete tameness of a population and it's offspring
Its intelligence level
Its friendliness to humans
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What theory is Jean Lamarck famous for?
Theory of Antibiotic Resistance
Stretching of a giraffes neck and passing it on to offspring
Aquatic animals that have blowholes and must surface for O2
Theory of evolution
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An event that places stress on a population of animals (Causes changes in plants or animals)
Natural Selection
Selection Pressure
Selective Breeding
Artificial Selection
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What is an example of changes in population through individuals?
Beak Strength
Hair Length
Paw Size
Beak Length
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Who was Charles Darwin?
Theory of Evolution
Scientist guy that is related to Bill Nye
Biologist who founded the idea of genetic frequency.
Created the first vaccine for polio
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What is an example of sexual selection?
Male birds generally being more colorful than females
Both male and female birds look similar
Female birds have specific temperament
Birds being different sizes
