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1. What was the mechanism of evolution that Darwin proposed?

a. law of biogenesis

b. like begets like

c. natural selection

d. spontaneous generation

2. Why was Lamarck

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1. James Hutton was the first to propose that geological change occurred gradually by the accumulation of small changes from processes that are occurring today, but who was the first to popularize this idea with additional geological evidence and to inspire Darwin to consider that the earth is millions of years old instead of only thousands of years old?

Charles Lyell

Charles Darwin

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

Aristotle

2.

Aristotle was perhaps the first person to classify organisms, but who was the first to develop a systematic approach to classifying organism in the 1700s that is still partly used today?

Galen

Carl Linnaeus

Stephen J. Gould

Ernst Mayr

3.

A multicellular eukaryote that contains cell walls but is not capable of photosynthesis is most likely a(n)

fungus

plant

bacteria

animal

4.

Which of the following best explains the significance of Charles Darwin’s contribution to biology?

Darwin was the first to suggest a plausible mechanism of evolution and provided several lines of evidence to support evolution and his mechanism.

Darwin was the first person to suggest a mechanism for evolution.

Darwin was the first to suggest that animals descended from other animals.

Darwin was the first to suggest that fossils were evidence of organisms that no longer existed.

What is NOT a requirement for evolution by natural selection to occur?
a) Traits must be inherited
b) Traits must influence reproductive success
c) Inherited traits must have variation within the population
d) Characteristics that are favored (fitness) relate to the immediate environment
e) Variations will appear that will allow the survival of the species in future, unforeseen, circumstances.

Charles Darwin...
a) ... arrived at the idea of natural selection in the Galápagos Islands.
b) ... was the first scientist to suggest evolution.
c) ... claimed that only aggressive and strong individuals would survive and reproduce.
d) ... with Alfred Wallace, published a mechanism for adaptive change, natural selection, and proposed a "tree of life".
e) ... argued that chimpanzees and gorillas were progressively evolving into human beings.

9.

A new species of fish is introduced into a lake. The fish quickly takes over the lakes and evolves into several related species. This is an example of

Adaptive radiation

Sexual selection

Gene flow

Genetic drift

10.

A small population of 500 turtles on an island suddenly suffers a natural disaster leaving only 20 surviving turtles. Before the disaster, the turtles had shells with very different shell patterns. After the disaster, the shells all look very similar. What mechanism can best explain this reduction genetic variation?

Adaptive radiation

Genetic drift

Gene flow

Sexual selection

11.

Who independently proposed the idea of natural selection and evolution at the same time as Darwin?

Kary Mullis

Peter and Rosemary Grant

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

Alfred Russell Wallace

12.

If you insert a gene from bacteria into a mouse genome, then which terms best explains what you just made?

a cloned animal

a dominant mutant animal

a transgenic animal

a suppressor mutant animal

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