Download Evolution Test Review (MUST BE COMPLETED BEFORE THE TEST

Evolution Test Review (MUST BE COMPLETED BEFORE THE TEST)
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1. Describe some of the observations made by Charles Darwin on the Galapagos Islands.
2. Explain Lamark’s theory of Use and Disuse.
3. Define artificial selection and give an example.
4. Define fitness. Define natural selection. Define evolution.
5. Define gene pool.
6. What are vestigial structures? Give two examples. How do these structures give support to the modern theory of
evolution?
7. According to the chart below, the closest evolutionary relationship most likely exists between which two?
Sequence of
Species
Amino Acids in the
Same Part of the
Hemoglobin
Molecules
Human
Lys-Glu-His-Iso
Horse
Arg-Lys-His-Lys
Gorilla
Lys-Glu-His-Lys
Chimpanzee
Lys-Glu-His-Iso
Zebra
Arg-Lys-His-Arg
8.
Define homologous structures. Using the chart of homologous structures, what
do the similarities in the lion limb and bat wing indicate?
9. What are analogous structures? Give an example.
10.
According to the diagram which groups are the most closely related? X is considered to be the?
11.
Describe how horses have changed over time according to the diagram.
12.
What do similarities in embryonic development suggest about these organisms?
13. Explain why fossils of an extinct amphibian be found in South America, Africa, and Australia.
Species D
Species B
Species C
Species B
Species A
14.
Using the diagram above, which species is the oldest? Where would you find the ancestors of Species C and D?
15. Define convergent evolution. Give an example.
16.
Which species is the most closely related to species O?
17. An Alaskan wolf tends to attack and kill animals that are weak rather than those that are strong. This tendency is
most closely associated with the concept of _____________________ _______________________.
18. How does genetic diversity help the process of natural selection and aid the survival of a population?
19. Why might a species of finch have a slightly shorter beak than that of its ancestors’ beak?
20. Define reproductive isolation and give an example scenario.
21. What is the advantage for a fish or frog species that lays hundreds of eggs each time it reproduces compared to a
species which lays only a single egg?
22. Some plants produce a toxin or poison. What advantage does a plant gain by producing this poison?
23. Some insects take on the appearance of plants, how did this first occur? What is the advantage of this happening?
24. Define gene flow and give an example. Define genetic drift and give an example.
25.
Describe what happens to size of the beaks during dry years.
26.
Choose the term that describes the natural selection occuring in each graph.
a. stablizing selection
b. Dirctional selection
c. Disruptive selection