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Georgia Milestones Biology EOC evolution quiz (SB6) quiz

15questions. Pick an answer and you'll see why right away.

  1. Which statement best describes Charles Darwin's mechanism for how species change over time?

  2. Why was Lamarck's idea of the inheritance of acquired characteristics rejected?

  3. Darwin's theory needed a particular view of Earth's history. Which view?

  4. The forelimbs of a human, a whale, and a bat share the same bone arrangement but differ in function. These are:

  5. A bird's wing and an insect's wing both allow flight but are built differently and evolved separately. They are:

  6. A shared protein differs from a human version by these amounts: species J 2, K 19, L 41. Which is most closely related to humans?

  7. Which list gives the four conditions required for natural selection?

  8. In biology, an organism's fitness means its:

  9. A population of beetles on dark bark is mostly dark, with a few light beetles that birds spot easily. Over many generations the population most likely becomes:

  10. For a gene with two alleles where p+q=1p + q = 1, the frequency of allele A is p=0.7p = 0.7. What is the frequency of allele a?

  11. A volcanic eruption randomly kills most of a small population, and the survivors have different allele frequencies by chance. This is:

  12. Which mechanism is the only source of brand-new alleles in a population?

  13. Wind carries pollen from one plant population into another, adding alleles to its gene pool. This is:

  14. A river permanently splits one frog species into two groups that, over time, can no longer interbreed even if reunited. This process is:

  15. A patient stops an antibiotic early and the infection returns resistant. Why did the population become resistant?