Evolution Test (Chapter 15 all, 16 all, 17-1 and 17-4)
Name: ___________________________ Date: _______________
Period: ____
Evolution Test (Chapter 15 all, 16 all, 17-1, 17-2, 17-3, and 17-4) Test Date: ___________
To prepare for the test over Chapters 15-17, you should read the chapters, review your notes, study the warm ups, and any assignments we worked on during this time. Any words you do not know the meaning of, you should look up in the glossary of your book.
1. The founder of the Modern Scientific Theory of Evolution is considered to be _______________.
2. Define Scientific Theory_____________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________________________
3. Describe the following people’s influence on Darwin’s thinking and their major scientific contributions
a. Charles Lyell
b. Thomas Malthus
4. Define the word species______________________________________________________________________________________.
5. How did speciation occur in the Galapagos finches? _______________________________________________________________
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6. Darwin’s Theory can be summarized by several statements. Describe each statement and give an example of each.
|Statement |Description |Example |
|Organisms differ and variations are | | |
|inheritable | | |
|Organisms produce more offspring that | | |
|can survive | | |
|Survival of the Fittest | | |
|Descent with Modification | | |
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7. The diagram above best illustrates
a. Lamark’s theory of Biological Evolution. b. Darwin’s Theory of Biological Evolution.
c. Lamark’s theory of Acquired Traits. d. Lyell’s theory of changes in the earth would affect life.
8. Give an example for each word and explain it.
a. Natural Selection -___________________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________Ex.________________________
b. Biological Fitness___________________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________Ex.________________________
c. Morphology-_______________________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________Ex.________________________
d. Physiology-________________________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________Ex.________________________
e. Common ancestry-___________________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________Ex.________________________
f. Selective pressure-___________________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________Ex.________________________
g. Biological diversity-_________________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________Ex.________________________
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9. What adaptation does this organism have that makes it well-suited to its environment? _____________________________
10. What is the title of Darwin’s most famous publication? ________________________________________________________
11. How could you identify if two organisms are members of the same species or different species? _________________________
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12. Name and explain the five major types of evidence that support the theory of biological evolution.
|Name |Description |
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13. Complete the following table.
|Structures |Identify whether the picture represents |Why are they considered vestigial, homologous or |
| |vestigial, homologous or analogous structures. |analogous? |
|Letter C indicates the pelvic bone and the under developed | | |
|legs in the Baleen whale. | | |
|[pic] |1._____________________ |________________________________________________________|
| | |________________________________________________________|
| | |________________ |
|Compare the two wings. | | |
|[pic] | | |
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| |2._______________________ |________________________________________________________|
| | |________________________________________________________|
| | |________________________________________________ |
|Compare each shaded bone | | |
| | | |
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| |3. ________________________ |________________________________________________________|
| | |________________________________________________________|
| | |________________________________________________ |
14. Which type of structure indicates common ancestry? ____________________________
15. There are two sources of genetic variation. List and describe them.
a.
b.
16. What is the relative frequency of an allele in a population? ________________________________________________________
17. A change in allele frequencies over time leads to ________evolution. (Choose micro- or macro-)
18. What is a polygenic trait? (Review Chapter 16 and notes)
19. The distribution of a polygenic trait will form a _______- shaped curve, as shown to the right.
20. What is being plotted on the x- axis? _____________________and y- axes _______________________?
21. There are three kinds of selection on a polygenic trait. Look at the following graphs and identify i.Type of selection, ii. How is the
population changing?
a. b. c.
22. Define speciation. ______________________________________________________________________________________________
23. What kind of isolation must occur for speciation to take place? __________________________________________________________
24. What selective pressure created the different species of finches below? ____________________________________________________
25. Darwin hypothesized that the finches had come from a ______________________ from the mainland and through the process called
_______________________ the birds developed specialized beaks to survive on different islands with different food sources.
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26. Study the table above and identify the common name of the finch that most likely survive a major drought? _______________________________
27. There are three kinds of Reproductive Isolating Mechanisms. List and describe them. Give one example for each.
|Reproductive Isolating Mechanism |Description |Example |
| | | |
|Geographic | | |
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|Temporal | | |
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|Behavioral | | |
28. _______________ are preserved remains of ancient organisms.
29. In _______________________ dating scientists calculate the actual age of a fossil based on the amount of radioactive isotopes it contains.
30. Relative dating involves _____________________________________________________________________________________.
31. List two reasons organisms become extinct.
a. _________________________
b. _________________________
32. Pattern of evolution in which long stable periods are interrupted by brief periods of more rapid change is called___________________________________________.
33. ___________________ is a process by which a single species evolves into many different forms over a period of time.
34. Define – Extinction____________________________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________Ex.____________________________
35. Define- Convergent Evolution____________________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________Ex.____________________________
36. Define- Coevolution____________________________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________Ex.____________________________
35. According to Figure 14-4, the correct chronological order of
organisms as they develop is _____.
a. birds, dinosaurs, jawed fish, prokaryotes
b. dinosaurs, jawed fish, birds, prokaryotes
c. jawed fish, dinosaurs, prokaryotes, birds
d. prokaryotes, jawed fish, dinosaurs, bird
36. What numbered layer of sediment contains the
oldest fossils in the picture to the right? ________
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Type of Selection____________
How is the population changing?_____ _______________________________
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Type of Selection___________
How is the population changing?_____ _______________________________
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Type of Selection: _________________
How is the population changing? _____
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