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Evolution Baseball Questions
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1.
The change in organisms over time is known as
__________________.
a. EVOLUTION
15. In the name Homo sapiens, which name represents
the species name?
a. sapiens
16. Which phrase best defines evolution?
A. an adaptation of an organism to its environment
B. a sudden replacement of one community by
another
C. a geographic or reproductive isolation of
organisms
D. a process of change in organisms over a period of
time
2.
What is the name for any foreign object that causes
disease in the body?
a. Pathogen or antigen
3.
Name one example of an environmental toxin:
a. Lead or mercury
4.
What is another phrase for natural selection?
a. SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST
5.
TRUE OR FALSE: All traits can be passed on from
parents to offspring.
a. FALSE: only GENETIC traits
6.
Which came first, autotrophs or heterotrophs?
a. HETEROTROPHS (can’t make their own
food)
17. How does natural selection operate to cause change
in a population?
A. The members of the population are equally able
to survive any environmental change.
B. The members of the population differ so that
only some survive when the environment changes.
C. The members of the population do not adapt to
environmental changes.
D. All the members of the population adapt to
environmental changes.
7.
Which came first, eukaryotes or prokaryotes?
a. PROKARYOTES
18. TRUE OR FALSE: A single organism can evolve.
a. FALSE
8.
The hardened remains of organisms are known as
_________.
a. FOSSILS
9.
When you determine the age of a fossil in relation to
other fossils above and below it, it is called ____.
a. RELATIVE DATING
19. Variations within a species are most likely the result
of
A. mutations and sexual reproduction
B. synapsis and disjunction
C. mitosis and asexual reproduction
D. overpopulation and recombination
10. The theory of abiogenesis says that life can come
from ___________ things.
a. NON-LIVING
11. The theory of biogenesis says that life comes only
from ____________ things.
a. LIVING
12. In natural selection, who/what “decides” what traits
are the most fit?
a. NATURE
20. Which of the following correctly describes a
prokaryote?
A. Has a cell wall, ribosomes, circular DNA, and a
nucleus
B. Has a cell wall, ribosomes, circular DNA, and no
nucleus
C. Has a cell membrane, ribosomes, and a nucleus
D. Has a nucleus, cell wall, and ribosomes
Double
1. The ability of an organism to survive and reproduce
in its specific environment is known as ________.
a. FITNESS
13. Who came up with the theory of Natural Selection?
a. CHARLES DARWIN
2.
14. Earth’s early atmosphere contained little or no
what?
a. OXYGEN
Any acquired characteristic that increases an
organism’s chance of survival is a/an: ____________.
a. ADAPTATION
3.
True or False: Fossils found in the bottom layers are
the newest and most complex.
a. FALSE- they are the oldest and most
primitive (simple)
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4.
An organism is eukaryotic, multicellular,
heterotrophic, and does not have a cell wall. To
which kingdom does it belong?
A. Protista
B. Animalia
C. Plantae
D. Fungi
11. In most populations, the individuals that produce the
greatest number of offspring are
A. always the strongest
B. usually the best adapted
C. those that have only recessive traits
D. those that are the most intelligent
5.
How do your genes and the environment interact?
A. Your genes determine what traits you will have,
not the environment
B. Your genes and the environment work together
to produce your traits
C. Your genotype is influenced by your phenotype
D. The environment has the same effect on genes,
regardless of who you are
12. Which statement is best supported by fossil records?
A. Many organisms that lived in the past are now
extinct.
B. species occupying the same habitat have identical
environmental needs.
C. The struggle for existence between organisms
results in changes in population.
D. Structures such as leg bones and wing bones can
originate from the same type of tissue found in
embryos
6.
Name one disease caused by your genes, and one
disease caused by a pathogen:
a. Genes: Hemophilia, sickle cell anemia, PKU,
Diabetes
b. Pathogens: Malaria, Influenza, chicken pox,
tuberculosis, common cold
13. The first life-forms to appear on Earth were most
likely
A. complex single-celled organisms
B. complex multicellular organisms
C. simple single-celled organisms
D. simple multicellular organisms
7.
Explain the job of B cells:
a. To produce antibodies to fight off infections
8.
Islands have very high genetic and species diversity.
Why is this?
A. Reproductive isolation keeps the populations
separate
B. Geographic isolation leads to natural selection
and speciation
C. The small land area produces increased mutations
D. There are more predators so more organisms die
14. What do homologous structures tell us about
evolution?
A. That the organisms do not share a common
ancestry
B. That the organisms all share a common ancestor
C. That the structures are the results of mutations
D. That the same structures can be found in every
living organism
9.
Charles Darwin proposed that organisms produce
many more offspring that can possibly survive on the
limited amount of resources available to them.
According to Darwin, the offspring most likely to
survive are those that
A. are born first and grow fastest
B. are largest and most aggressive
C. are best adapted to the environment
D. have no natural predators
10. An organism is eukaryotic, multicellular, autotrophic,
and has a cell wall. To which kingdom does it
belong?
A. Protista
B. Animalia
C. Plantae
D. Fungi
15. Which of the following best describes co-evolution?
A. Both species slowly become extinct
B. The evolution of one species influences the other
C. One species evolves into two species
D. Two species evolve into one species
16. How does mimicry help organisms adapt to their
environments?
A. It allows them to be eaten more frequently
B. It allows them to copy other organisms to survive
better
C. It allows them to evolve into new species
D. It allows them to fight off predators better
17. Which of the following is an example of fungi?
A. A spider
B. A amoeba
C. A bacteria
D. A mushroom
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18. Which of the following is the correct order of
classification?
A. Species, Genus, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order,
Family
B. Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus,
Species
C. Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species, Kingdom,
Phylum
D. Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Species,
Genus
4.
Explain how a vaccine allows you to develop active
immunity:
a. A vaccine provides you a low dose of an
antigen that allows your body to produce
antibodies to fight it off. That way if you
ever get sick, your body will recognize the
antigen and you won’t get sick.
5.
Describe the endosymbiotic theory (Hint: How we
got mitochondria and chloroplasts in eukaryotic
cells).
a. Mitochondria and chloroplasts used to be
prokaryotes that were free-living. They
were taken in by other prokaryotes and
began to live inside these other cells.
Eventually they became organelles that
performed functions for the bigger cell.
These bigger cells were now called
eukaryotes because they had membrane
bound organelles, and eventually a nucleus!
6.
Plasma membranes, ribosomes, and mitochondria
are similar in different organisms such as the oak
tree and grasshopper. This similarity provides
evidence of
A. Common ancestry
B. use and disuse
C. body cell mutations
D. recombinant DNA
Which statement about the individuals within a
population that survive to reproductive age is
consistent with Darwin's theory of natural selection?
A. They transmit characteristics acquired by use and
disuse to their offspring.
B. They tend to produce fewer offspring that those
that do not survive.
C. They are the ones best adapted to exist in their
environment.
D. They will perpetuate unfavorable changes in the
species.
19. Which kingdoms have photosynthetic organisms?
A. fungi and protists
B. plants and protists
C. animals and plants
D. fungi and plants
20. Two nucleotide sequences found in two different
species are almost exactly the same. This suggests
that these species
A. are evolving into the same species
B. contain identical DNA
C. may have similar evolutionary histories
D. have the same number of mutations
21. The spotted touch-me-not, a flowering plant, has
seed pods that burst open when touched and
forcefully eject their seeds. Such an adaptation is
favorable because it
A. aids in the dispersal of the species.
B. attracts insects that aid in pollination.
C. prevents germination within the seed pod.
D. can cause genetic changes to occur.
Homerun
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3.
Describe Lamarck’s Theory of Acquired
Characteristics.
a. May use a story about an animal. Must
describe passing on characteristics (That are
NOT genetic) from one organism on to its
offspring so that the new babies will also
have that trait.
Describe what Miller and Urey’s Experiment told the
scientific community
a. They found that mixtures of the organic
compounds necessary for life could have
arisen from simpler compounds present on
primitive Earth.
Describe what happened when organisms began
doing photosynthesis.
a. More and more oxygen entered the
atmosphere. Some organisms died because
the oxygen was toxic. Other organisms
survived and began to use oxygen in
respiration.
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8.
Which observation lends the least support to
Lamarck's theory of evolution?
A. Children of truck drivers and children of
computer operators both drive equally well.
B. Children who are good athletes have athletic
parents.
C. People who become great actors produce children
with considerable acting talent.
D. Parents who have never played a violin produce
offspring who cannot learn to play a violin
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9.
In 1889, August Weismann, a German biologist,
conducted an experiment attempting to produce
mice without tails. He cut the tails off adult mice and
then permitted them to mate. All offspring had long
tails. He repeated the experiment many times,
always with the same results. This experiment
helped disprove the concept of
A. overproduction in a species
B. inheritance of acquired characteristics
C. survival of the fittest
D. struggle for existence
10. According to modern evolutionary theory, genes
responsible for new traits that help a species survive
in a particular environment will usually
A. not change in frequency
B. decrease gradually in frequency
C. decrease rapidly in frequency
D. increase in frequency
11. Which concept is not a part of the theory of
evolution?
A. Present-day species developed from earlier
species.
B. Some species die out when environmental
changes occur.
C. Complex organisms develop from simple
organisms over time.
D. Change occurs according to the needs of an
individual organism to survive.
12. Explain how a bacterial population can become
resistant to an antibiotic.
a. Natural variation exists in the bacterial
population- some are resistant and some
are not. When antibiotics are used, the
resistant ones live, and the others die. The
surviving bacteria reproduce and pass on
their resistance to their offspring. Over
time, all of the bacteria are resistant to the
antibiotic.
13. Why are humans important to the life cycle of
malaria parasites?
A. Malaria parasites kill humans
B. Malaria parasites only live in human cells
C. Malaria parasites can live in mutual symbiosis with
humans
D. Malaria parasites use humans for reproductive
purposes
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