Bio Test (Evolution)

Question 1

The person that reasoned that if the human population continued to grow unchecked, sooner or later there would be insufficient living space and food for everyone.

Answer 1

Thomas Malthus

Question 2

The person that talked about natural selection and evolution through fossils and visiting the Galapagos Islands

Answer 2

Charles Darwin

Question 3

The person that was one of the first people to propose species modification

Answer 3

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

Question 4

The person that said that the geologic forces have shaped Earth

Answer 4

James Hutton

Question 5

A graph which shows the average being the most

Answer 5

Stabilizing graph

Question 6

A graph which shows one extreme is favored and over time the opposite is favored. Ex: pepper moth

Answer 6

Directional Graph

Question 7

A graph which shows the extremes of a population being favored

Answer 7

Disruptive graph

Question 8

Study of species & ecosystems in geographic space

Answer 8

Biogeography

Question 9

2 unrelated organisms look alike

Answer 9

convergent evolution

Question 10

a boundary that seperates 1 population into 2 species

Answer 10

divergent evolution

Question 11

the change in frequnecy of an existing gene

Answer 11

genetic drift

Question 12

how a new kind of plant or animal species is created

Answer 12

speciation

Question 13

structures you have but no longer use ex: wisdom teeth

Answer 13

vestigial

Question 14

the different genes between species

Answer 14

variation

Question 15

different structure same function

Answer 15

analogous

Question 16

same structure different function

Answer 16

homologous

Question 17

human intervention with animal environment

Answer 17

artificial selection

Question 18

a well-supported testable explanation of phenomena that have occurred in the natural world

Answer 18

theory

Question 19

change over time

Answer 19

evolution

Question 20

survival of the fittest

Answer 20

natural selection

Question 21

land barriers causing a population to separate ex: grand canyon

Answer 21

geographic isolation

Question 22

using the carbon left in a plant or animal to tell the age

Answer 22

carbon dating

Question 23

ability to survive and reproduce

Answer 23

fitness

Question 24

when organisms disappear from the earth

Answer 24

extinction

Question 25

total amount of genes in a population

Answer 25

gene pool

Question 26

gene flow

Answer 26

movement of genes from one population to another

Question 27

amino acid protein

Answer 27

cytochrome c

Question 28

the farther the level is from the surface of the earth that the fossil is found in, the older the fossil

Answer 28

law of superposition

Question 29

when two organisms work together and cause a symbiotic relationship

Answer 29

coevolution

Question 30

when an abrupt change is made in a sequence of the generations of a specific species

Answer 30

punctuated equilibrium