Question 1

Individuals, such as veterinarians, who work closely with farm animals treated with antibiotics tend to carry ____ as a result.

Accepted Answer

A) lethal bacteria 
B) bacteria vulnerable to all antibiotics 
C) bacteria vulnerable to some antibiotics 
D) bacteria resistant to Flavomycin but not vancomycin 
E) more antibiotic-resistant bacteria

Question 2

A cladogram can be viewed as "sets within sets" of derived traits. Which features distinguish the clade containing mice and humans from the other clades in this cladogram?

Accepted Answer

A) multicellular with legs 
B) multicellular with hair 
C) multicellular with a backbone 
D) multicellular 
E) multicellular with a backbone, legs and hair

Question 3

Over evolutionary time, flowering plants have evolved colors, odors, and nectar that attract pollinating insects and the insects have evolved mechanisms that detect the changes in plants and to better collect pollen. This is an example of ____.

Accepted Answer

A) allopatric speciation 
B) phylogenetic change 
C) coevolution 
D) a key innovation 
E) sympatric speciation

Question 4

Match between columns
                        Premises: Prairie grouse females choose to mate with males that display the most intricate dance and make the loudest thumping noise with their chests.

Accepted Answer

The Answer of sexual selection and disruptive selection and stabilizing is...

Question 5

With ____ selection, the frequency of a favored allele will increase as a phenotypic variation becomes more adaptive.

Accepted Answer

A) directional 
B) stabilizing 
C) disruptive 
D) frequent 
E) mutational

Question 6

____ selection occurs when individuals choose mates with a particular desirable trait.

Accepted Answer

A) Stabilizing 
B) Sexual 
C) Artificial 
D) Asexual 
E) Disruptive

Question 7

Match between columns
                        Premises: The movement of alleles between populations

Accepted Answer

The Answer of fixed and founder effect and inbreeding and is...

Question 8

A female horse can mate with a male donkey but they will produce a mule that is sterile. This is an example of what type of isolation mechanism?

Accepted Answer

A) allopatric 
B) physical 
C) behavioral 
D) reproductive 
E) geological

Question 9

Match between columns
                        Premises: Change in allele frequency due to chance alone.

Accepted Answer

The Answer of gene flow and genetic drift and bottleneck is...

Question 10

With the extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, multiple niches that the dinosaurs once filled opened up and allowed mammals the opportunity to evolve and exploit those niches. This is an example of ____.

Accepted Answer

A) sympatric speciation 
B) adaptive radiation 
C) phylogeny 
D) reproductive isolation 
E) phylogenetic isolation

Question 11

Match between columns
                        Premises: Homozygous dominant black mice are camouflaged by dark rocks and homozygous recessive light-colored mice are camouflaged by light colored rocks. Heterozygous grey mice have no camouflage and are easily picked off and eaten by hawks.

Accepted Answer

The Answer of reproductive isolation and founder effect and directional is...

Question 12

Match between columns
                        Premises: a quantifiable, heritable characteristic

Accepted Answer

The Answer of phylogeny and balanced polymorphism and cladistics and is...

Question 13

Overhunting of the northern elephant seals left only twenty individuals, from which the modern population arose. As a result, each animal is most likely ____ for most alleles.

Accepted Answer

A) recessive 
B) dominant 
C) homozygous 
D) heterozygous 
E) co-dominant

Question 14

Match between columns
                        Premises: evolutionary history of a species

Accepted Answer

The Answer of microevolution and character and cladistics and balanced is...

Question 15

In Cameroon, seedcrackers have either small bills (adapted for feeding on soft sedge seeds)or large bills (adapted for feeding on hard sedge seeds). During competition for scarce resources, these birds primarily feed on the seeds for which they are best adapted. This is an example of ____ selection.

Accepted Answer

A) stabilizing 
B) disruptive 
C) frequent 
D) directional 
E) mutational

Question 16

Match between columns
                        Premises: Refers to an allele for which all members of a population are homozygous.

Accepted Answer

The Answer of genetic drift and founder effect and fixed is...

Question 17

Match between columns
                        Premises: Reduction in population size so severe that it reduces genetic diversity.

Accepted Answer

The Answer of genetic drift and founder effect and fixed is...

Question 18

What is the best definition of a population?

Accepted Answer

A) a group of individuals of two different species that interact with each other 
B) a group of interbreeding individuals from different geographical regions 
C) a group of potentially interbreeding individuals of the same species regardless of where they live 
D) a collection of different species living in the same area at the same time 
E) a group of interbreeding individuals of the same species in a given area

Question 19

Match between columns
                        Premises: evolutionary tree diagram that shows hypothesized of evolutionary relationships among a group of clades

Accepted Answer

The Answer of fixed allele and phylogeny and cladistics and is...

Question 20

The branch points on a cladogram represent ____.

Accepted Answer

A) the species' extinction 
B) derived characters 
C) related clades 
D) a common ancestor of two lineages 
E) mass extinctions

Exam 12: Processes of Evolution

Individuals, such as veterinarians, who work closely with farm animals treated with antibiotics tend to carry ____ as a result.

A cladogram can be viewed as "sets within sets" of derived traits. Which features distinguish the clade containing mice and humans from the other clades in this cladogram?

Over evolutionary time, flowering plants have evolved colors, odors, and nectar that attract pollinating insects and the insects have evolved mechanisms that detect the changes in plants and to better collect pollen. This is an example of ____.

Match the evolutionary concepts correctly with the correct description or example. Some choices may be used more than once.

With ____ selection, the frequency of a favored allele will increase as a phenotypic variation becomes more adaptive.

____ selection occurs when individuals choose mates with a particular desirable trait.

For each statement, select the genetic evolutionary concept that best represents the description.

A female horse can mate with a male donkey but they will produce a mule that is sterile. This is an example of what type of isolation mechanism?

For each statement, select the genetic evolutionary concept that best represents the description.

With the extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, multiple niches that the dinosaurs once filled opened up and allowed mammals the opportunity to evolve and exploit those niches. This is an example of ____.

Match the evolutionary concepts correctly with the correct description or example. Some choices may be used more than once.

For each statement, select the best choice that represents the description given.

Overhunting of the northern elephant seals left only twenty individuals, from which the modern population arose. As a result, each animal is most likely ____ for most alleles.

For each statement, select the best choice that represents the description given.

For each statement, select the genetic evolutionary concept that best represents the description.

For each statement, select the genetic evolutionary concept that best represents the description.

What is the best definition of a population?

For each statement, select the best choice that represents the description given.

The branch points on a cladogram represent ____.