BENCHMARK #3
EVOLUTION, SPECIATION,
TAXONOMY, BIOENGINEERING
#1:The structures seen below perform
what function?
A: fluid transport
B. neuron production
c. gas exchange d. water regulation
#2: The following are an example of what
pattern of evolution?
a. Convergent evolution
b. adaptive radiation
c. Punctuated equilibrium d. coevolution
#3: The following structures are used to perform
what function?
a. Digestion
c. Transport
Phloem and xylem
b. growth
d. reproduction
#4 & #5: What type of cell division is shown
below?
a. Binary fission
b. budding
c. Tissue regeneration d. external fertilization
#4
#5
#6: What process is being illustrated by
the diagram below?
a. Co-evolution
b. geographic isolation
c. Convergent evolution
d. extinction
#7: Which of the following terms is
represented by the figure below?
a. homologous structure
b. coevolution
c. vestigial structure
d. microevolution
#8:Whose name is associated with the
following experiment?
a. Stanley Miller
b. Charles Darwin
c. James Watson
d. Linnaeus
#9: What type of evidence for
evolution is represented below?
a. Embryology
b. homologous structures
c. Biogeography
d. vestigial structures
#10 & #11: Which of the following
terms would best be applied to the
figures below?
a. Cambrian Explosion
b. Principle of Superposition
c. Principle of Faunal Succession
#11
d. microevolution
#10
#12: Which phylum goes through an
alternation of generations?
A. arthropods
b. chordata
c. gymnosperms
d. Mollusca
13: What process is being shown
below?
#14: What name is given to organisms that
have the DNA of other organisms placed
inside of them?
#16: What do scientists call these cells that
can differentiate into any tissue?
#17:Which of the following terms would be used
to describe the first forms of life on Earth?
A. aerobic and prokaryotic
b. aerobic and eukaryotic
c. anaerobic and prokaryotic
d. anaerobic eukaryotic
#18: To which Kingdom do the
following organisms belong?
#19: Which of the following is not
found in amphibians?
A. bony skeleton
b. vertebrae
c. four limbs
d. amniotic egg
#20: Which of the following
organisms are the most closely
related?
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A. Morone americana
B. Esox americanus
C. Lequs americanus
D. Bufo americanus
E. Esox masquinogy
#21: Into what phylum does the
following organism belong?
A. Fungi
b. Plantae
c. Protista
d. Animalia
e. Monera
#22. Which organisms has legs but
no feathers?
#23: This is an example of what
type of evidence supporting the
theory of evolution?
#24: Which of the following is
considered to be more advanced?
#25: The following structures are
used to increase surface area
during what biological process?
#26: The following is a diagram
illustrating what technique?
A. PCR
B. Recombinant DNA
C. DNA fingerprinting
D. Osmosis
#27: The illustration is a
demonstration of which of the
following?
A. macroevolution
b. descent with modification
c. Convergent Evolution
D. geographic isolation
#28: The organisms shown below
does not have which of the
following?
A. closed circulatory system
b. complete digestive system
c. complete metamorphosis
d. sexual reproduction
#29: Which of the following is/are
never autotrophic?
A
B
C
D
#30: Which of the following are
never unicellular?
A
B
C
D
#31: Which of the following sharks
are the most closely related?
• Kingdom Phylum
Class
Order
A: Animalia
Chordata
Chondrichthyes
Squaliformes
B: Animalia
Chordata
Chondrichthyes
C: Animalia
Chordata
Chondrichthyes Squaliformes
Squatiniformes
#32: Which of the following does not
produce seeds?
A
B
C
D
#33: Which pattern of evolution is
represented by these organisms?
#34. Which of the following require water
to reproduce (move their gametes?
A
B
D
C
#35: Which of the following is not
eukaryotic?
A
B
D
C
#36. Why are Viruses not
considered to be alive?
#37: Which of the following have
cell walls of chitin and a mycelium.
A
C
B
D
#38: Biogenesis vs. Abiogenesis
1. Whose name goes with each
experiment?
Pasteur
Miller
Redi
A
B
#39A: Which organisms are the
most primitive?
#39B: Which phylum is most
closely related to vertebrates?