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Evolution
Practice Test
Question #1
• Organisms that can
naturally reproduce and
make fertile offspring are
part of the same ___.
Question #2
• Survival and
reproduction of
organisms best suited to
their environment
because of adaptations.
Question #3
•Extinction is the
death of a ________.
Question #4
• A tornado kills half the
population of 5-legged
creatures, leaving mostly 4legged creatures. The 4-legged
creatures lived underground,
safe from the tornado. What is
this an example of?
Question #5
•What causes variations?
Question #6
• How does speciation
occur?
Question #7
• If two populations
cannot mate because
they are separated by a
river, what is this an
example of?
Question #8
• Two populations
become similar after
they move around and
mate with each other.
Question #9
• Is variation within a
species good or bad?
Why?
Question #10
• Two groups of organisms
have different mating rituals,
so they do not reproduce
with each other. What is this
an example of?
Question #11
• Does evolution act on the
genotype or phenotype?
Answers
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Species
Natural selection
Species
Genetic drift
Mutations, genetic recombination
isolation, variations build up over time,
until two groups become to different to
reproduce and make fertile offspring
Answers
7. Geographic isolation
8. Gene flow
9. Good, because there is a greater chance
that some members can survive changes in
the environment
10. Behavioral isolation
11. Phenotype