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Natural Selection Quiz

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Question #1
Why did Darwin’s contemporaries believe that natural selection could not move a population beyond its initial range of variation?
A  Because selection can only make traits larger, not smaller
B  Because large changes are better than small increments of change when breeding by blending
C  Individuals can only change when they try to
D  Because selection does not produce new variants of traits
Question #2
Why was natural selection difficult for Darwin to fully explain?
A  All of these statements are true.
B  Natural selection acts by removing only variants of highest fitness.
C  Natural selection does not actually remove any variants in real life.
D  Natural selection reduces variation in the trait.
Question #3
Based on blending inheritance, if a finch with a large beak depth mates with a finch with a small beak depth, then the offspring will have
A  beaks with small depth.
B  beaks with large depth.
C  beaks with random depth.
D  beaks with medium depth
Question #4
Which contemporary of Charles Darwin also developed a theory of evolution by means of natural selection?
A  Erasmus Darwin
B  Charles Lyell
C  Alfred Russel Wallace
D  Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Question #5
Darwin
A  was reluctant to publish his theories
B  was not concerned with public opinion and did not mind if his theories were criticized
C  all of these statements are true
D  published his theories as soon as he returned from his voyage on the Beagle
Question #6
Lions chase and try to eat gazelles. Natural selection favors the ability for gazelles to run fast because:
A  The ability to run fast is passed from gazelles to their offspring
B  All of these statements are correct
C  Predation from lions is a powerful selective pressure
D  Faster gazelles are more likely to escape predators and survive long enough to produce offspring
Question #7
During 1976 on the Galápagos Island of Daphne Major, Peter and Rosemary Grant found evidence of natural selection by adaptation when they observed that
A  finches with shallow beaks were less likely to survive and reproduce than finches with deep beaks.
B  finch beak size had no effect on survival rates.
C  many more small seeds were available for the finches to eat.
D  more finches with deep beaks died than finches with shallow beaks.
Question #8
Darwin’s theory states that ____________ who are more well-suited to their environment will be more likely to survive and reproduce.
A  families
B  individuals
C  species
D  groups
Question #9
“Fitness,” in an evolutionary sense, refers to an individual’s
A  age at death
B  reproductive success
C  aggressiveness
D  strength
Question #10
Which of the following concepts did not influence Darwin in developing his theory of evolution?
A  There is competition among individuals for resources.
B  Favorable variations are passed on and accumulate in populations over time.
C  Population size increases more rapidly than food supplies.
D  Species are unchanging types, and individual variation within a species is not important.
Question #11
The fact that individuals who possess favorable traits are more likely to survive and reproduce than those who possess less favorable traits is the basis for which theory?
A  the inheritance of acquired characteristics
B  natural selection
C  catastrophism
D  uniformitarianism
Question #12
For natural selection to occur, variation must exist. This is true because without variation
A  no form of a trait is more advantageous than another because all individuals have exactly the same form.
B  the one trait that exists is always advantageous, and change is not necessary.
C  there is no competition among individuals.
D  traits are never inherited by offspring.
Question #13
The postulates that make up Darwin’s theory of adaptation include all of the following except
A  individuals always compete with each other physically.
B  variation affects the ability of individuals to survive and reproduce.
C  any given environment can support only a certain number of individuals.
D  variation is passed from parents to offspring.
Question #14
Natural selection is the result of all of the following except
A  heritable variation in organisms.
B  bigger organisms surviving at a higher rate than smaller organisms.
C  the interaction of organisms with their environment.
D  existing variation in organisms.
Question #15
In formulating his theory of natural selection, Darwin did not
A  claim that favorable variations would tend to be destroyed, unfavorable ones be preserved
B  apply his knowledge of domesticated species to undomesticated ones
C  recognize the importance of biological variation within a population
D  appreciate the fact that population size is limited by availability of food
Question #16
Differential reproductive success:
A  Is differences in average reproductive success between species
B  Is observed when an individual’s parents have different numbers of offspring
C  Was first observed in a species of frog that lays an average of 2,000 eggs
D  Is differences in reproductive success between individuals of the same group
Question #17
Reproductive success
A  Was first observed in a species of frog that lays an average of 2,000 eggs
B  Is measured as the total number of sex partners over the life span
C  Never happens for smaller individuals
D  Is the number of offspring who survive to an age at which they themselves can reproduce
Question #18
Charles Darwin:
A  began to doubt the fixity of species during a voyage around the world in the 1830s
B  spent two years in Africa where he developed the theory of natural selection
C  grew up in modest circumstances
D  received no formal education
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