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Evolution Unit Test: Practice Guide
Part A: Complete the following questions:
1.) What is a population? Give two examples of different populations found on the East
Coast of the United States.
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2.) What is a representative organism? When studying fossils found in rock layers,
what type of information can be deciphered?
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3.) How do different variations of species arise?
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4.)Who was Francesco Redi? What experiment did he complete? Why was it important?
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5.)What occurs when gene frequencies of a population change? What if they stay the
same? How does this happen?
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6.)What is punctuated equilibrium? Give an example.
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7.) What is embryology? Why is studying embryos important to the modern theory of
Evolution?
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8.)What is the founder effect? What does it result in?
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9.)What is gene flow? What does it result in?
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10.)What is a population bottleneck? What does it result in?
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11.)What is the difference between a heterotroph and an autotroph? Give an example of
each.
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12.) What is the difference between geographic isolation and reproductive isolation?
What can each result in?
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13.) What is natural selection? What does it act on? What does it result in?
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14.) Describe the illustration below in a complete sentence. What process is occurring?
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15.) Give two examples of adaptations that would give an advantage for survival,
according to the theory of natural selection.
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16.) Why are fossils an integral piece of evidence for the modern theory of Evolution?
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17.) What is a homologous structure? Give an example.
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18.) What is an analogous structure? Give an example.
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19.) What is a vestigial structure? Give an example.
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20.) What is binomial nomenclature? Give the scientific name of a human in correct
form.
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21.) What are the five pieces of evidence for Evolution?
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Part B: Use the table to fill in the cladogram below:
Amino Acid Differences
Species
Number of Amino
Acid Differences
Human
0
Salamander
79
Horse
27
Chimpanzee
2
Pig
14
22.) The data table above shows the number of amino acid differences in the hemoglobin (blood
protein) molecules of several species compared with amino acids in the hemoglobin of humans.
Based on the information in the data table, write the names of the organisms from the table in
their correct positions on the cladogram below.
Humans
Time
Part C: Fill in the table below concerning the 2 types of Genetic Drift.
23.)
Bottleneck Effect
2 similarities
Founder Effect
Explanation of
term:
Example of when it
would occur:
Potential effects to
a population:
Good Luck Studying !!!!!
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