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Ohio Biology EOC B.E (Evolution) overview quiz quiz

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

  1. Which set of conditions is required for natural selection to change a population?

  2. In evolutionary biology, the 'fittest' organism is the one that:

  3. A student says a population of mice 'turned brown because they needed to hide.' Why is this incorrect?

  4. The forelimbs of a human, whale, bat, and cat share the same bone pattern but do different jobs. These are:

  5. A bird's wing and an insect's wing both allow flight but are built very differently. These are:

  6. Two species share 96% of a DNA sequence; a third shares only 78% with the first. This indicates that:

  7. Under the biological species concept, two organisms are the same species if they can:

  8. A canyon splits a population so the two groups can no longer interbreed. This barrier directly causes speciation by:

  9. Which statement correctly defines evolution at the population level?

  10. In a population at Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, p=0.6p = 0.6 and q=0.4q = 0.4. What is the frequency of heterozygous individuals (2pq2pq)?

  11. Which of these is a condition that must hold for a population to stay in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium?

  12. A single bird species on an island gives rise to many species, each with a beak suited to a different food. This is: