Evolution Questions
Mrs. Stewart's Honors Biology Classes
Chapters 14-15
1. Why did Darwin travel for 5 years from 1831-1836 on the HMS
Beagle?
2. What was Darwin interested in learning on his voyage?
3. What was the name of his ship?
4. What did he discover on the Galapagos?
5. Who was Thomas Malthus?
6. What were Darwin’s four basic principles?
7. What is natural selection?
8. Compare/Contrast natural selection to artificial selection.
9. What is the name of his most famous book?
10. Why is the fossil record important?
11. What type of rock are fossils generally found?
12. Describe relative dating, radiometric dating and the law of superposition.
13. What is the relevance of half-life?
14. List and describe the various flora and fauna of major eras and periods.
15. Name and describe the five mechanisms of evolution?
16. Name and describe the two types of Genetic Drift.
17. Explain the peppered moth phenomenon.
18. What is the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium? (p.431)
19. What are the five conditions required for the Hardy-Weinberg
equilibrium to exist? (p.432)
20. Name and describe the three modes of natural selection.
14. What is reproductive isolation?
15. Name and describe prezygotic and postzygotic barriers.
16. What is allopatric speciation? Sympatric speciation?
17. Distinguish between adaptive radiation/divergent evolution and
convergent evolution?
18. How does co-evolution support evolution?
19. Discuss the difference between the gradualist model and punctuated
equilibrium.
20. What were the first cells?
21. What are photosynthesizing prokaryotes?
22. What is the endosymbiont theory? (p.406)
23. What is fitness?
24. What is an adaptation?
25. Explain the difference between camouflage and mimicry.
26. What role does antimicrobial resistance play in evolution?
27. What are the consequences of adaptations?
28. What does the fossil record say about evolution?
29. How is a homologous structure different from a vestigial structure?
30. How are analogous structures different from homologous
structures?
31. How does comparative embryology and biochemistry provide
evidence that evolution exists?
32. How is geographic distribution relevant in the theory of evolution?