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1The following are conditions under which evolution may take place EXCEPT:
- Agenetic drift
- Bmutations
- Crandom mating
- Dnatural selection
2Choose the two processes that cause gene flow
- AEmmigration/Immigration
- BNatural Selection/Random Mating
- CEmmigration/Natural Selection
- DImmigration/Nonrandom Mating
- ERandom Mating/Nonrandom Mating
3[blank_start]fossils[blank_end] are remains or traces of preexisting organisms
- Afossils
4Who developed the idea that geologic processes shaped Earth in the past and continue to operate today?
- AJean Baptiste Lamarck
- BCharles Darwin
- CCharles Lyell
5Which one of the following is NOT one of the assumptions that must be made in order for the Hardy-Weinberg genetic equilibrium to apply to a population?
- ANo net mutations occur
- BThe population is small
- Cselection does not occue
- Dindividuals neither enter nor leave the population
- Eindividuals mate randomly
6Genetic drift operates most strongly in large populations
- ATrue
- BFalse
7Which of these kingdoms include both unicellular and multicellular forms?
- APlantae/Protista
- BProtista/Eubacteria
- CAnimalia/Archaebacteria
- DProtista/Fungi
- EAnimalia/Eubacteria
- FAnimalia/Plantae
8The science of classifying living things is called:
- ASpeciation
- BClassification
- CTaxonomy
- DIdentificaition
9The correct order of the classification system: [blank_start]Domain[blank_end], [blank_start]Kingdom[blank_end], [blank_start]Phylum[blank_end], [blank_start]Class[blank_end], [blank_start]Order[blank_end], [blank_start]Family[blank_end], [blank_start]Genus[blank_end], [blank_start]Species[blank_end]
- ADomain
- BKingdom
- CPhylum
- DClass
- EOrder
- FFamily
- GGenus
- HSpecies
- IKingdom
- JDomain
- KPhylum
- LClass
- MOrder
- NFamily
- OGenus
- PSpecies
- QDomain
- RKingdom
- SPhylum
- TClass
- UOrder
- VFamily
- WGenus
- XSpecies
- YDomain
- ZKingdom
- AAPhylum
- ABClass
- ACOrder
- ADFamily
- AEGenus
- AFSpecies
- AGDomain
- AHKingdom
- AIPhylum
- AJClass
- AKOrder
- ALFamily
- AMGenus
- ANSpecies
- AODomain
- APKingdom
- AQPhylum
- ARClass
- ASOrder
- ATFamily
- AUGenus
- AVSpecies
- AWDomain
- AXKingdom
- AYPhylum
- AZClass
- BAOrder
- BBFamily
- BCGenus
- BDSpecies
- BEDomain
- BFKingdom
- BGPhylum
- BHClass
- BIOrder
- BJFamily
- BKGenus
- BLSpecies
10Which of the levels of the classification system are included in "binomial nomenclature"?
- AGenus and species
- BDomain and kingdom
- CClass and order
- DAll of the levels
11Which of the following is used in systematic taxonomy to classify organisms?
- Apatterns of embryological development
- Bhomologous features
- Camino acid sequences of proteins
- Dall of the above
12The organism Quercus phellos is a member of the genus
- AQuercus
- BPlantae
- CProtista
- Dphellos
13Two organisms in the same class but different orders
- Aare in the same phylum
- Bhave the same genus name
- Care in different kingdoms
- Dare members of the same species
14Two organisms in the same order but different families may
- Abe more similar than two organisms in different classes
- Bbe in the same class
- Chave the same species identifier
- Dall of the above
15Phylogenetic trees depict
- Aknown evolutionary relationships between organisms
- Bonly living organisms
- Cpresumed evolutionary relationships based on physical features only
- Dpresumed evolutionary relationships based on a variety of types of evidence
16Taxonomy is defined as the science of
- Astudying ribosomal RNA sequencing techniques
- Bstudying reproductive mechanisms and gene flow
- Cclassifying plants according to their uses in agricultural experiments
- Dgrouping organisms according to their characteristics and evolutionary history
17Darwin used the phrase "Survival of the Answer
[blank_start]fittest[blank_end]" to describe natural selection, which is the measure of an individual's hereditary contribution to the next generation.- Afittest
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