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College Evolution
What is phylogeny?
  1. life history of an organism
  2. branch of biology concerned with the relationship between vegetation and rainfal
  3. evolutionary history of a group of organisms
  4. branch of biology concerned with the relationship between plants and animals.
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On what do scientists group an evolutionary tree?
  1. the fossil record
  2. molecular data
  3. genome sequencing
  4. all of the above
  5. none of the above
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Which of the following is not a requirement of evolution by natural selection?
  1. random mating
  2. fitness differences
  3. inheritance
  4. variation
  5. more offspring produced than can survive
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What did the tiktaalik fossil show?
  1. That there was a transitional form between sharks and dolphins
  2. It showed how fish evolved into tetrapods
  3. It was evidence that all fish originated in rivers and not oceans
  4. It showed that there was life before dinosaurs
  5. Both B&D
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What is cladistics?
  1. A method of hypothesization using shared derived traits to determine an evolutionary history
  2. The observation of all of the descendants of a particular ancestor
  3. The analysis of a taxon that contains some members that don't share a common ancestor
  4. The use of common ancestors to establish a phylogeny between one or more derived species
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What is the first process in allopatric speciation?
  1. the production of sterile hybrids
  2. the separation of one population into two geographically isolated populations
  3. adaptive radiation
  4. a doubling of chromosome number
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Which of the following could function as a postzygotic reproductive isolating mechanism?
  1. different breeding seasons
  2. use of different types of habitats
  3. sterility of hybrid offspring
  4. differences in courtship rituals
College Evolution
Where can Darwin's tubercle be seen?
  1. only in monkeys
  2. only in humans
  3. only in mice
  4. only in bats
  5. none of the above
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What was the first stage of the process that led to the abiotic origin of life?
  1. abiotic synthesis of monomers, such as amino acids and nucleotides
  2. abiotic formation of pre-cells
  3. abiotic synthesis of ribozymes
  4. abiotic synthesis of polymers
  5. origin of self-replicating molecules
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In which of the following situations would the biological species concept be difficult to apply?
  1. organisms only known by fossils
  2. populations of Asexual organisms
  3. determining whether living and extinct organisms are different species
  4. all of these above
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