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Place the letter of the best answer in the blank beside the question number.
1. / The process by which living things change over a period of time. / A. natural selection / B. speciation / C. genetic drift / D. evolution
2. / A group of organisms that mate and produce fertile offspring.
. / A. family / B. species / C. class / D. none of these
3. / A comparison of internal and external structures of organisms.
. / A. morphology / B. phylogeny / C. anatomy / D. none of these
4. / The collection of genes for all the traits in a population
. / A. frequency / B. drift / C. equilibrium / D. gene pool
5. / Organisms with favorable variations survive and reproduce at a higher rate
. / A. evolution / B. speciation / C. natural selection / D. none of these
6. / Many species appear to be related to a single ancestral species
. / A. natural selection / B. adaptive radiation / C. coevolution / D. none of these
7. / This man said that "man evolved from a monkey"
. / A. Charles Darwin / B. Jean Lamarck / C. Alfred Russel Wallace / D. none of these
8. / The percentage of a specific allele of a gene in the gene pool
. / A. genetic drift / B. gene frequency / C. adaptive radiation / D. allele frequency
9. / Unrelated species becoming more and more similar in appearance because of shared environments
. / A. evolution / B. convergent evolution / C. divergent evolution / D. none of these
10. / John T. Scopes was a
. / A. scientist / B. teacher / C. lawyer / D. none of these
11. / ______are similarities in the skeletal structure of different species.
. / A. vestigial structures / B. homologous structures / C. embryology structures / D. none of these
12. / Organ or structures that still appear in an organism but do not have any apparent function.
. / A. vestigial structure / B. homologous structure / C. missing limb / D. embryology
13. / A set of numerous individual fossils that show a change between one species and another.
. / A. transitional fossils / B. genetic variation fossils / C. embryology fossils / D. fossil shift
14. / The fact that all organisms share the same basic DNA structure and thus are related is evolution evidence from which of the following fields of science?
. / A. Paleontology / B. Molecular biology / C. Anatomy-physiology / D. none of these
15. / Similarities during vertebrate embryos development follow a common developmental path due to their common ancestry is evidence found in ______.
. / A. embryology / B. biogeography / C. paleontology / D. none of these
16 / Darwin's voyage took place on a ship named the ______.
. / A. HMS discovery / B. HMS frontier / C. HMS beagle / D. none of these