Download Evolution/Natural Selection Test Review Who is Charles Darwin

Evolution/Natural Selection Test Review
1. Who is Charles Darwin?
2. What is evolution?
3. Where and how did he come up with the theory for evolution?
4. List the evidences of evolution.
5. What did Malthus suggest?
6. What did Lamarck say?
7. What is fitness?
8. Modern sea star larvae resemble some primitive vertebrate larvae. What does this suggest?
9. Define and give an example of a homologous structure.
10. Define and give an example of an analogous structure.
11. Define and give an example of a vestigial structure.
12. What is speciation? Give an example.
13. What did Hutton and Lyell suggested.
14. Genetic variation can aid in the survival of species when the environment changes. What is a good
example of an organism with a genetic variation that could improve survival chances over time?
15. Why is this sentence true?: A reduction in competition can cause an increase in predator
population.
16. Define natural selection and give an example.
17. Define and give an example of adaptations.
18. Define genetic drift.
19. Define Gradulism and Punctuated Equililbrium.
20. What is Embryology and what does it tell us?
21. The creation of a new species of rabbit could be called ________________.
22. List the types of Natuaral Selection: (end of Notes) and draw the graph that goes with each.
23. A worm has a change in its DNA that makes it taste yucky to birds. The other worms still taste good.
What will most likely happen as a result of this mutation?
24. Know how to interpret this diagram based on how closely related organisms are. For example, do
bony fishes and armored fishes share a common ancestor? Are sturgeon and lungfish more closely
related than sturgeon and perch?