This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Class 12 > Class 12 Biology Chapter 7 Evolution – Quiz 60 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 12 Biology Chapter 7 Evolution Quiz 60 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of the following is a correct statement about the relationship between natural selection and evolution? A) Natural selection results from evolution. B) Natural selection includes evolution as a part of it. C) Natural selection is one mechanism of evolution. D) Natural selection and evolution are the same thing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Natural selection is one mechanism of evolution. 2. What is phylogeny? A) The study of all phyla in the classification system. B) The evolutionary history of a species or taxonomic group. C) The study of plants. D) The study of animals. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The evolutionary history of a species or taxonomic group. 3. What is an inherited characteristic that helps organisms survive? A) Evolution. B) Adaptation. C) Natural Selection. D) Extinction. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Adaptation. 4. He was able to develop three theories which include Theory of Need, Theory of Use and Disuse and Theory of acquired characteristics. A) Albert Einstein. B) Jean Baptiste de Lamarck. C) Charles Darwin. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Jean Baptiste de Lamarck. 5. What type of selection favors only one end a population curve? A) Stabilizing Selection. B) Directional Selection. C) Disruptive Selection. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Directional Selection. 6. A population of white-tailed deer inhabits a certain patch of forest in Michigan. Which group of alleles can be considered the gene pool of those deer? A) He dominant alleles of the white-tailed deer in this population only. B) The dominant alleles of all white-tailed deer. C) All alleles of all white-tailed deer. D) All alleles of the white-tailed deer in this population only. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All alleles of the white-tailed deer in this population only. 7. The more genetic variation a population has, the more likely it is for some individuals to A) Evolve. B) Migrate. C) Survive. D) Mutate. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Survive. 8. What types of organisms have similar characteristics and can reproduce? A) Species. B) Organism. C) Populations. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Species. 9. Was an Austrian scientist, teacher, and Augustinian prelate who lived in the 1800s. He experimented on garden pea hybrids while living at a monastery and is known as the father of modern genetics. A) Heredity. B) Gregor Mendel. C) James Watson and Francis Crick. D) Chromosomes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gregor Mendel. 10. Which characteristic is shared by all prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms? A) The ability to reproduce asexually. B) The ability to make their own food. C) The need for a source of energy. D) The need for oxygen for respiration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The need for a source of energy. 11. A cladogram shows a model of how 4 mammals are related. Starting on the left, horses diverged first, then Gorillas, than Humans diverged from chimpanzees. What evidence would best support this claim of speciation? A) Physical traits and genetic similarities. B) Presence of lungs and four limbs. C) Mammals all have fur. D) Environmental niche similarities. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Physical traits and genetic similarities. 12. Which scientist is known for the theory of evolution by natural selection? A) Albert Einstein. B) Isaac Newton. C) Charles Darwin. D) Gregor Mendel. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Charles Darwin. 13. Geologist who suggested the earth's age should be measured in the "millions" of years A) Darwin. B) Lamarck. C) Lyell. D) Wallace. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lyell. 14. What do we call a change in a species over time? A) Adaptation. B) Evolution. C) Extinction. D) Environmental influences. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Evolution. 15. Which of the best explains how and why to take antibiotics A) Take all of your antibiotics because surviving bacteria may have resistance and can quickly grow and reproduce. B) Take all of your antibiotics because the antibiotics boosts your immune system. C) Stop taking antibiotics when you feel better because they are dangerous. D) Stop taking antibiotics when you feel better because the small number of surviving bacteria cannot grow fast. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Take all of your antibiotics because surviving bacteria may have resistance and can quickly grow and reproduce. 16. What is a Mass Extinction? A) When an organism dies off from Earth. B) When multiple species or organisms die off from Earth. C) A type of trait. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) When multiple species or organisms die off from Earth. 17. Which scientist is known for his work on the principles of uniformitarianism, which greatly influenced Darwin's understanding of geological processes? A) Isaac Newton. B) Galileo Galilei. C) Charles Lyell. D) Marie Curie. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Charles Lyell. 18. Humans domesticating wolves and breeding them to make a variety of dog breeds today A) Natural selection. B) Artificial selection. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Artificial selection. 19. What is hybridization? A) When 2 different species make a new species. B) When 2 species move somewhere together. C) When 2 species have fun together. D) When 2 species get along. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) When 2 different species make a new species. 20. Darwin's book was called On the Origin of A) Individuals. B) Natural selection. C) Species. D) Evolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Species. 21. Largest extinction in Earth's history A) Cambrian. B) Ordovician. C) Devonian. D) Permian. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Permian. 22. What does the suffix "troph" indicate? A) How a creature acquires its energy. B) What kind of temperature a creature prefers. C) Whether its gram positive or negative. D) Whether its an Archaea or not. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) How a creature acquires its energy. 23. ..... is the theory of organic evolution . A) Lamarckism. B) Darwinism. C) Neo-Darwinism. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lamarckism. 24. In a population of 1000 people, 90 have blue eyes, which are recessive. What percent of the population is heterozygous for brown eyes? A) 3. B) 9. C) 21. D) 42. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 42. 25. Fossils that are created from the impression of an organism are called A) Cast. B) Mold. C) Trace. D) Behavioral. 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