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MA High School Biology MCAS Module 5 evolution and biodiversity overview quiz quiz

12questions. Pick an answer and you'll see why right away.

  1. Which of these is NOT one of the conditions needed for natural selection?

  2. Why does natural selection act on populations rather than individuals?

  3. Bacteria become resistant to an antibiotic over time. This is an example of...

  4. What are homologous structures?

  5. In a protein-comparison table, two species differ by the fewest amino acids. What does this suggest?

  6. On a phylogenetic tree, what does a branch point (node) represent?

  7. How do you find the two most closely related species on a phylogenetic tree?

  8. What usually begins the process of speciation?

  9. At the population level, evolution is best described as...

  10. When pollution darkened tree bark, dark peppered moths increased. What happened to the dark allele?

  11. What is biodiversity?

  12. Why does higher biodiversity tend to make an ecosystem more stable?