Class 12 Biology Chapter 7 Evolution Quiz 11 (60 MCQs)

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1. A type of natural selection which acts upon an organisms ability to obtain a mate
2. What earth worm adaptation is an example of a physiological adaptation
3. Are a diverse group of warm-blooded animals that are distinguished by several key characteristics, including having hair or fur, producing milk to feed their young, and having specialized teeth for different types of feeding.
4. What is most likely to happen to the lizards of a certain species when the food supply is limited?
5. The macroevolutionary theory which shows the slowest change over time is called .....
6. Is a diagram that illustrates the evolutionary relationships between different species of organisms. It shows how all living organisms are related through a common ancestor and how they have diversified over time through the processes of evolution and natural selection.
7. All of today's camels are descended from the same camel ancestors. These ancestors lived in .....
8. What evidence of evolution? Humans and sea stars both have radial cleavage in the early embryonic development.
9. Adaptations develop over many generations.
10. When did Charles Darwin live?
11. Is the idea that some individuals are better adapted to their environment than others. The better-adapted individuals are more likely to survive and reproduce than other members of the same species.
12. The only way for evolution to happen is if the population .....
13. Grouping living thing in an orderly way is the job of a
14. The naturalist who proposed that evolution happens through natural selection was .....
15. Which of the following is NOT generally a characteristic of complex, advanced organisms?
16. What type of barrier inhibits the eastern and western skunks that reproduce at different times of the year (different seasons)?
17. The average individuals in a population are favored in ..... selection.
18. Which is an example of a cline?
19. Linage that is not closely related to the rest of the organisms?
20. What will most likely happen if a species can no longer produce offspring?
21. The competition between members of the same species is called ..... struggle.
22. 2 types of evolution are convergent evolution and divergent evolution
23. Which of the following experiments would best demonstrate the role of a keystone species?
24. Which best describes mutations?
25. -Another form of evidence of evolution is the convergence of forms in organisms that share similar environments-can also occur in response to ecological niches, such as in the evolution of burrowing animals like moles and armadillos, which have similar adaptations for digging underground.
26. These structures share a common function but not structure ex) the wing of a bird and the wing of an insect
27. Natural selection allows you to:
28. The end of a species
29. Bird wings and butterfly wings are an example of
30. Similarities in early development, or Embryos of an animal is called .....
31. A mistake or change that occurs in the DNA sequence is called a .....
32. The time between birth and and an individuals reproduction is called
33. A clear fish imprint in a rock indicates the rock is .....
34. The name of the scientist who proposed the theory of evolution by acquired traits.
35. The experimental proof was provided to the theory of chemical evolution by .....
36. The process of new species coming to be is known is called .....
37. What is selective breeding also known as?
38. AP Biology Evidence of Evolution
39. Features of different species that are similar in function but not necessarily in structure and which do not derive from a common ancestral feature
40. The 8 levels of classification, from most broad to most specific, are
41. Natural selection would select for:
42. What was probably the first organism on Earth?
43. Adaptations can be:
44. The mole rat is an animal with long claws and teeth for digging deep holes. Scientists think the ancestors of the mole rat lived above ground and had shorter claws and teeth. Which of the following processes resulted in the long claws and teeth that are traits of the mole rat?
45. Which of these are main ideas in Darwin's Theory of Evolution?
46. Bacterial growth is
47. According to ..... mutation is a misprint of cell division
48. When a population becomes better suited to its habitat
49. ..... is the evolutionary history of a group of related organisms.
50. The combination of alleles, situated on corresponding chromosomes, that determines a specific trait of an individual, such as "Aa" or "aa" .
51. Video Click HereHow do transitional fossils and forms support the theory of evolution?
52. This is a group of organisms that includes an ancestor and all of its descendants
53. Animals are born with their adaptations due to genes.
54. Which period belongs to the Paleozoic era and not the Cenozoic era?
55. Remains are a type of .....
56. Earth's early atmosphere had no
57. Two clades that emerge from the same node are .....
58. Based upon the conditions of the early Earth, which forms of live most likely appeared first?
59. Evolution is considered to be one of the most important theories in science, because it
60. Relating to origin is known as