Evolution and Classification Test Review
1.During the voyage of the Beagle, many of Darwin's observations were made where?
2.The wings of experimental fruit flies were clipped short each generation for fifty generations. However, fruit-flies kept being born with normal-length wings because ______
3.When a dairy farmer breeds only his or her cows that produce the most milk, the process involved is
4.What 3 things must occur in orderfor Darwin's theory of natural selection to happen in a population.
5.When lions prey on a herd of antelope, some antelope are eliminated. Which part of Darwin's theory of evolution may be used to describe this situation?
6.Individuals within a population that survive to reproductive age is consistent with Darwin's theory of natural selection because they have adapted to their ______
7.Darwin called the ability of an organism to survive and reproduce in its environment
Figure 15-2
8.The pelvis and femur (leg bone) of the whale shown in Figure 15-2 is an example of what type of structure?
9.Starfish larvae resemble some primitive vertebrate larvae. This similarity may be used to suggest that primitive vertebrates and starfish share a common ______
11.What is the definition a population
12.The combined genetic information of all members of a population is the population's
13.A change in a sequence of DNA is a
14.In a population of finches in which one group of birds has a short beak and a second group has a long, narrow beak, what process has probably occurred?
15.The situation in which allele frequencies remain constant is called
16.Populations are separated by barriers such as rivers, mountains, or bodies of water in ______isolation
17.A new species cannot form without ______isolation
18.The American toad breeds earlier in the spring than the Fowler's toad does. Therefore, they do not interbreed, even though they often live in the same habitat. What can be inferred from this information?
Figure 16-1
19.Which of the graphs in figure 16-1 represent disruptive selection?
20.Which of the graphs in figure 16-1 represent directional selection?
21.Which of the graphs in figure 16-1 represent stabilizing selection?
22.Examples of fossils include what?
23.Most fossils form in
24.The length of time required for half of the radioactive atoms in a sample to decay is its
25.A single species that has evolved into several different forms that live in different ways has undergone
26.A genus is composed of a number of related
27.Several different classes compose a
28.The most general and largest category in Linnaeus's system is
29.Some similarities between distantly related organisms have been produced by
30.What biochemicals do all living things have in common?
31.The kingdoms Protista, Plantae, Fungi, and Animalia have what in common?
NOTE - A Giant Panda IS NOT a bear
Figure 18-2
32.True or False - All organisms shown in Figure 18-2 that belong to the Genus Ursus also belong to the phylum Chordata?
33.What is the smallest taxonomic category shown in Figure 18-2 in which all members are not bears?
34.True or False - All organisms shown in Figure 18-2 that belong to the class Mammalia also belong to the genus Ursus
35.Gametes are produced by the process of
36.Which of the following statements about evolution is true?
Living things change for no reason
Individuals can change their genes over time
All living things on Earth have always been here
Populations evolve not individuals
Classification of Living Things
Fill in the empty boxes
KINGDOM / Eubacteria / Archeabacteria / a. / Plantae / Fungi / b.CELL TYPE / c. / Prokaryote / Eukaryote / Eukaryote / Eukaryote / Eukaryote
NUMBER OF CELLS / Unicellular / Unicellular / Most Unicellular, some multicellular / d. / Most multicellular, some unicellular / Multicellular
MODE OF NUTRITION / Autotroph or Heterotroph / Autotroph or Heterotroph / Autotroph or Heterotroph / Autotroph / Heterotroph / e.