Question 1

Acquired variations that are favorable to the survival of an organism tend to be present in greater frequency in the next generation of those organisms.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

Which of the following would be least likely to form a fossil?

Accepted Answer

A)  a marine organism 
B)  an organism living in a lake 
C)  an animal with an exoskeleton 
D)  an animal with an endoskeleton 
E)  an organism in the tropical rain forest

Question 3

Darwin might have made greater advances in his theory of evolution by natural selection if he had:

Accepted Answer

A)  read of the work of Charles Lyell 
B)  taken into consideration the theories of Malthus 
C)  taken into consideration the work of Gregor Mendel 
D)  performed experiments in plant growth and development 
E)  visited other remote islands that contained a limited number of species

Question 4

The rapid evolution of bacteria and fungi in certain environments is used in the field of:

Accepted Answer

A)  bioremediation 
B)  plant genomics 
C)  medical diagnostics 
D)  human disease genetics 
E)  human genome sequencing

Question 5

What mechanism would explain how fossils of the same organism can be found in parts of Africa and South America?

Accepted Answer

A)  biogeography 
B)  natural selection 
C)  continental drift 
D)  homoplastic features 
E)  convergent evolution

Question 6

The discovery of fossils of whale intermediates suggest that whales evolved from:

Accepted Answer

A)  sharks 
B)  aquatic reptiles 
C)  marine invertebrates 
D)  a larger marine mammal 
E)  four-legged, land dwelling mammals

Exam 18: Introduction to Darwinian Evolution