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Chapter 5 Evolution and Biodiversity
1.Evidence for the evolution of life comes from:
2.What is the current hypothesis biologists’ have about the production of the earth's atmospheric oxygen?
3.The gas that is least likely to have formed Earth's primitive atmosphere is ___________
4.Which source of energy probably contributed least to the synthesis of biological chemicals on primitive
Earth?
5. Explain(s) the origin of organic molecules on Earth.
6.Sequence the most likely order of the biological evolution of life.
7. What is the most likely explanation of the oxygen revolution?
8. What is the distance of the earth from the sun?
9. Why is the earth “just right”?
10. Why is the fossil record incomplete?
11. A change in the genetic composition of a population over successive generations is called ____________.
12. The term that describes small genetic changes that a population within a species experiences is
_____________.
13. The term used to describe the long-term, large-scale evolutionary changes among groups of species is
__________.
15. A gene pool is the
_____________________________________________________________________________.
16. Mutations can be caused by
_____________________________________________________________________.
Read about the peppered moth on the website before answering 17-18
17.The change from a light to a dark color in the peppered moth was the result of:
17. The change in coloration within the population of peppered moths is an example of
__________________________.
18. What are mutations?
19. What limits adaptation?
20. Explain the following in your own words: coevolution, microevolution, macroevolution, convergent
evolution, divergent evolution
21. Explain the following in your own words: niche, habitat, fundamental niche, realized niche
22. Explain the following in your own words: speciation, allopatric speciation, sympatric speciation
23. What are the common misconceptions about evolution?
24. Biologists estimate that over ____ of the species that have ever lived are now extinct.
25. What is the difference between background extinction, mass extinction
26. What is adaptive radiation? How many years does it take for adaptive radiations to rebuild biological
diversity after a mass extinction, and mass depletion?