Evolution Review Sheet
Name:
Period:
Describe how the following show evidence for the theory of evolution.
1. Fossil Record: _____________________________________________________
Ex _______________________________________________________________
2. Homologous Structures: _____________________________________________
Ex _______________________________________________________________
3. Vestigial Structures: _________________________________________________
Ex _______________________________________________________________
4. Analagous Structures: ________________________________________________
Ex _______________________________________________________________
5. Comparative Embryology: ____________________________________________
Ex _______________________________________________________________
6. Biochemistry: ______________________________________________________
Ex _______________________________________________________________
7. Charles Darwin is known as the “father of evolution”. He developed his theory after taking a trip
on the ship names the ______________________.
8. What group of islands did he do most of his studies in? ____________________________
9. What is the name of his book? _______________________________________
10. A major theme of Darwin’s theory of evolution was the idea of “fitness”. What is fitness?
_____________________________________________________
11. What does natural selection act upon: Phenotypes, recessive alleles, or mutations?
12. Describe Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection and include four of Darwin’s key points.
1) ____________________________________________________________________________
2) ____________________________________________________________________________
3) ____________________________________________________________________________
4) ____________________________________________________________________________
13. Two characteristics that help organisms remain “fit” are mimicry and camouflage.
a. What is mimicry? _____________________________________________
b. What is camouflage? __________________________________________
14. How old is the Earth estimated to be? _____________
15. What is the definition of a speciation? ____________________________________________
16. What is the difference between natural selection and artificial selection?
Artificial Selection
____________________________________________________________________________ Natural
Selection ________________________________________________________________________
17. What is an adaptation? ______________________________________________________
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18. What’s the difference between gradualism and punctuated equilibrium?
Gradualism
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Punctuated Equilibrium
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19. What is divergent evolution?_________________________________________________________
20. What is convergent evolution? _______________________________________________________
21. What is geographic and reproductive isolation?
Geographic: _______________________________________________________________
Reproductive: _____________________________________________________________
22. What is genetic drift? What is a gene pool?
Genetic drift:_________ _____________________________________________________
Gene Pool: ________________________________________________________________
23. On what size population will genetic drift affect the most?
Small
Medium
Large
24. What is the biggest force driving evolution? ___________________________________
25. How does radiometric dating determine the age of fossils? __________________
26. What was produced from the Miller/Urey experiment? _____________________
27. What was the first genetic material on Earth? ____________________
28. Who officially disproved spontaneous generation? ________________
What type of experiment did he perform? __________________
29. Who used rotting meat and jars to try and disprove spontaneous generation?
__________________
30. What was Lamarck’s theory of how things changed over time?
____________________________________________________________________
31. What gas was not present before life began? ____________________
32. What protects us from harmful UV light (other than sunscreen)? _________________
33. Mutations, recombination of genes, and independent assortment during meiosis all lead to
differences, or ____________, within a population.
34. True or false: Humans descended from monkeys. _____________
35. The idea that Eukaryotes developed from one larger prokaryote engulfing another prokaryotes and
working together is known as what? ___________________
36. _________________________ is the study of evolution from a genetic point of view.
37. Genetic drift, migration, and nonrandom mating can all cause what to occur?
____________________
38. First life resembled Archaebacteria, a kingdom around today. Were they:
Autotrophic
or
Heterotrophic
Prokaryotic
or
Eukaryotic
Photosynthetic
or
Chemosynthetic