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Grade 9 Evolution
Which of these is a classification group with biological meaning?
  1. evolutionary
  2. clade
  3. taxon
  4. genera
Grade 9 Evolution
One important way that scientists categorize information when organizing diversity is by
  1. DNA type.
  2. types of species.
  3. keeping records in the computer.
  4. how long ago certain organisms shared a common ancestor.
Grade 9 Evolution
How can gene pools change?
  1. new better adapted species, mutations, non-random mating.
  2. over predation
  3. lack of resources
  4. Not enough human intervention
Grade 9 Evolution
Who was the British naturalist who published "On the Origin of Species"?
  1. Charles Darwin
  2. Charles Lyell
  3. Thomas Huxley
  4. James Hutton
Grade 9 Evolution
What is a species?
  1. formation of a new species
  2. two or more species reproducing at one time
  3. evolution of a preexisting group of individuals
  4. a group of potentially interbreeding individuals
Grade 9 Evolution
What tends to change or evolve over several generations?
  1. ecosystems
  2. populations
  3. orders
  4. kingdoms
Grade 9 Evolution
Similar genes are evidence of
  1. binomial nomenclature.
  2. mutations.
  3. common ancestry.
  4. different anatomy.
Grade 9 Evolution
Which situation will most likely lead to disruptive natural selection?
  1. introduction of a competing insect species that has a light body color
  2. preference of female beetles to mate with only dark-colored male beetles
  3. outbreak of plant diseases that either produce dark spots on leaves or cause leaves to lose their color
  4. removal of almost all the vegetation from the habitat, exposing the light-colored soil underneath the vegetation
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