Quiz Page on Evolution
1. What is Darwinism? / 2. What is the most likely reason that bacteria become resistant to antibiotics? / 3. What type of structure is similar in structure but different in function?4. Why was Lamarck ridiculed? / 5. What is the MAIN concept behind Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection? / 6. What is radioactive dating?
7. Which disciplines in science give the most support to evolution? / 8. What trait improves a population’s chance of survival? / 9. What is a species?
10. What is punctuated equilibrium? / 11. What type of cell must a gene mutation be in to lead to biological resistance? / 12.What is fitness?
13. What type of scientist studies fossils? / 14. How do some insects become resistant to a pesticide? / 15.What is a way to characterize natural selection?
16. What is true about fossil record? / 17. What is the major factor that drives biological resistance? / 18. How might the overuse of antibiotics lead to resistant strains of bacteria?
19. If sharks and penguins both use their fins to swim but they are different in structure, what type of structure is this? / 20. What did Lamarck say drove evolution? / 21. Give some examples of vestigial structures.
22. What are the preserved remains that Darwin studied? / 23. What is a phylogenetic tree? / 24. What is embryology?
25. What do we call characteristics that increase an organism’s chance of survival? / 26. What is extinction? / 27. What did Darwin notice about the finches he studied?
28. What is an example of evolution? / 29. What is ancestry? / 30. Why would more light colored lizards live in White Sands New Mexico than dark colored lizards?
Answer Page for Evolution
1. ideas regarding evolution by natural selection / 2. a few individuals had resistance so they survived and passed that gene onto their offspring / 3. homologous4. because acquired traits cannot be passed down to offspring / 5. organisms best suited for their environment will survive and reproduce / 6. when a scientist used an element like uranium or carbon and half-lives to determine age of fossil/rock
7. genetics and heredity / 8. genetic variation / 9.group of similar organisms that can breed and produce fertile offspring
10. quick biological change with long periods of time with no change / 11.gametes / 12. an organism that is best suited for its environment has this trait
13.paleontologist / 14. the insects have an adaptation that allows them to survive / 15.a long, cumulative process of adaptive mutations
16.oldest fossils are found in deeper layers of rock / 17.variation exists within a species’ population / 18.antibiotics shift natural selection to favor an existing resistant bacteria
19.homologous / 20.the traits an organism inherits is based on use or disuse / 21.human tail bone and appendix; ostrich’s wings
22.fossils / 23.a diagram used to represent how a single species evolved from a common ancestor / 24. the study of structures in animals before birth
25. adaptations / 26.death of all individuals in a species / 27. they had different beaks depending on what island they lived on
28.a hummingbird’s beak that allows for suckling nectar from flowers / 29.the history of an organism’s development / 30. light colored lizards are more likely to survive and reproduce here because they blend in with their environment better