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Honors Biology Chapter 15 Review
Honors Biology Chapter 15 Review
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1
What type of selection is represented by this diagram?
Stabilizing
Directional
Sexual
Disruptive
2
A peacock's tail is best explained by the concept of _________ selection.
Artificial
Sexual
Stabilizing
Disruptive
3
What occurs when a population declines to a very low number then rebounds?
Founder effect
Bottleneck
Sexual selection
Natural selection
4
Zonkeys represent the _________ isolation between zebras and donkeys as zonkeys are infertile.
Prezygotic
Postzygotic
5
Which form of prezygotic isolation is represented by this image?
Temporal
Behavioral
Geographic
Physical
6
This diagram best represents which concept?
Convergent evolution
Coevolution
Migration
Divergent evolution
7
A trait shaped by natural selection that increases an organism's reproductive success is:
its phenotype
a homologous characteristic
a mutation
an adaptation
8
Ligers and tigons cannot produce fertile offspring. This tells us that lions and tigers...
are the same species
are different species
are big cats
don't know how to reproduce
9
Ellis van Creveld syndrome, also known as six-finger dwarfism, is an example of:
Artificial selection
Bottleneck
Sexual selection
The founder effect
10
What is a major source of variation in a population?
Translation
Mutation
Disruptive Selection
Stabilizing Selection
11
What is the name of the ship Darwin sailed on as a naturalist that led him to the Galapagos?
HMS Wallace
HMS Doberman
HMS Beagle
HMS Beetle
12
What type of selection is represented by this diagram?
Disruptive
Stabilizing
Directional
Sexual
13
Structures that are reduced forms of functional structures in other organisms are called:
Convergent
Analogous
Vestigial
Homologous
14
How long did Darwin sail and work with the crew of the HMS Beagle?
5 years
5 months
1 year
2 months
15
Gene flow makes two populations ______________________________.
more similar to each other
become separate species.
more different from one another
reproductively isolated from one another
16
Which type of speciation does this diagram represent?
Patrick Star
Allopatric
Sympatric
Saint Patrick
17
This diagram best represents which concept?
Divergent evolution
Convergent evolution
Migration
Coevolution
18
What book did Darwin publish that outlined his theory?
Evolution
Fantastic Beetles and Where to Find Them
On the Origin of Species
Tales from the Galapagos
19
Organisms with more evolutionary fitness have which quality in common?
They are the smartest organisms in their population.
They are the fastest organisms in their population.
They are least likely to be noticed by predators.
They are more successful in passing on their genes.
20
French naturalist who proposed evolution through the inheritance of acquired characteristics
Gregor Mendel
Jean Baptiste-Lamarck
Alfred Russel Wallace
Charles Darwin
21
Which two scientists developed this equation to measure allele frequencies in populations?
Watson and Crick
Hardy and Weinberg
Darwin and Wallace
Mendel and Lamarck
22
Genetic drift is different from natural selection because _______________________
it results from chance events.
it may cause a population to evolve.
it affects the gene frequencies of populations.
it acts on existing variation within populations.
23
Mechanism that leads to evolution that was formulated by Charles Darwin
Natural Selection
Sexual Selection
Artificial Selection
Directional Selection
24
What option below would lead to gene flow occurring between two populations?
Migration
The formation of a river
Nonrandom mating
The formation of new mutations
25
English naturalist who formulated a theory nearly identical to Darwin's
John Gould
Alfred Russel Wallace
Charles Lyell
Thomas Malthus
26
______ is defined as the cumulative genetic
changes
that occur in groups of organisms over time
Variation
Artificial Selection
Evolution
Natural Selection
27
Which form of reproductive isolation is found between Eastern and Western Meadowlarks?
Postzygotic
Prezygotic
28
This image shows what type of structures?
Coevolved
Vestigial
Analogous
Homologous
29
An insect wing and a bird wing are considered ___________ structures.
Divergent
Analogous
Vestigial
Homologous
30
How many years did Darwin wait to publish his theory after he had formulated it?
8 years
5 years
20 years
1 year