Quiz On Evolution

Question 1

Spontaneous generation

Answer 1

Idea that nonliving things could produce living things

Francesco redi helped disprove theory

Question 2

Biogenesis

Answer 2

Idea that living organisms come only from other living organisms

(Accepted today)

Question 3

First cells

Answer 3

Prokaryotes

Were anaerobic and heterotrophic

Question 4

What happened after prokaryotes

Answer 4

Autotrophs evolved when all the food was used up by chemosynthesis

Question 5

What organism evolved after autotrophs

Answer 5

Photosynthesis prokaryotes

Helped increase O2 in atmosphere

Question 6

Endosymbiont theory

Answer 6

Theory that eukaryotic cells evolved from prokaryotic cells

Question 7

What engulfed what

Answer 7

Large prokaryotic unicellular organisms engulf smaller prokaryotic organisms

Question 8

What r the four key points of natural selection

Answer 8

Overproduction
Genetic variation
Struggle to survive
Differential reproduction

Question 9

What is natural selection

Answer 9

Differential reproductive success

Question 10

Survival of the fittest

Answer 10

Those who r eliminated in the struggle for existence r unfit

Question 11

Fitness

Answer 11

A measure of the reproductive success of an organism, not physical conditioning

Question 12

Evidence

Answer 12

Fossils 
Homologous structures
Analogous structures 
Vestigial structures
Embryology 
Biochemistry 
Molecular homologies

Question 13

Fossils

Answer 13

Provide a record of early life and evolutionary history

Question 14

Homologous structures

Similar in function or structure

Answer 14

Evidence that organisms evolved from a common ancestor

Adapt for survival within the environment

Question 15

Analogous structures

Answer 15

Body parts of organisms that do not have a common evolutionary origin, but are similar in function

Question 16

Vestigial structures

Answer 16

Body structure that has no function in a present day organism but was probably useful to an ancestor

Question 17

Embryology

Answer 17

Similarities among embryos among different species suggest evolution from a common ancestor

Question 18

Biochemistry

Answer 18

Comparisons of DNA and RNA

Provides evolutionary evidence between individuals and species

Question 19

Molecular homologies

Answer 19

Organisms can contain similarities in molecular structure
If two species have genes and proteins with sequences that match closely, the sequences have probably been copied from a common ancestor

Question 20

What is a cladogram and how is it used

Answer 20

It’s a tree like diagram used to illustrate evolutionary relationships among organisms