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Grade 7 Evolution
What was the name of the book Darwin published in 1859?
  1. Evolution Over Time
  2. Darwin and the HMS Beagle
  3. The Origin of Species
  4. The Origin of Evolution
Grade 10 Evolution
Which factor does NOT support Darwin's theory of evolution?
  1. fossil record
  2. homologous structures
  3. similarities in embryos
  4. differences in plants
Grade 10 Evolution
One of the most commonly known species that Charles Darwin observed and studied while on the Galapagos Islands were finches. How did these finches arrive in the Galapagos Islands?
  1. They were left there by previous travelers.
  2. They spontaneously generated once food sources were available.
  3. They flew, or were blown, from South America.
  4. Darwin brought them with him from other places he had visited before.
Grade 10 Evolution
College Evolution
Darwin contributed which unique ideas towards science?
  1. Environmental pressure causes organisms to change.
  2. Organisms can pass changes on to their offspring
  3. Small evolutionary changes contribute into larger ones
  4. Variation is what allows organisms to change over time
  5. Major evolution occurs slowly over time
  6. A and B
  7. C,D,E
  8. All of the above
Grade 5 Evolution
Grade 10 Evolution
Before and during Darwin's time, many theories of evolution had been proposed. With which theories would Darwin most likely agree?
  1. Malthus's theory that species and populations were limited by available resources, lack of resources, and competition, and that competition drove evolution
  2. Cuvier's theory of catastrophism, where abrupt changes and the survivors of those changes were not new species at all
  3. Lyell's theory of uniformity, where a steady, gradual, and lengthy molding of Earth and its species occurred
  4. Lamarck's theory that single, simple forms could become more complex in an individual and thereby cause heritable changes in the next generation
Grade 7 Taxonomy
Who proposed the system of binomial nomenclature for identifying organisms?
  1. Aristotle
  2. Carolus Linnaeus
  3. Charles Darwin
  4. Robert Whittaker
Grade 9 Evolution
Who is renowned as the Father of Evolution?
  1. Gregor Mendel
  2. Charles Darwin
  3. Jean Baptiste Lamarck
Grade 10 Evolution
Diagrams that show how evolutionary lines or lineages split from each other over time are
  1. cladograms.
  2. the Linnaeus system.
  3. the Darwin theory.
  4. evolutionary scales.
Grade 10 Evolution
With which famous American does Charles Darwin share a birthday, February 12, 1809?
  1. George Washington
  2. Benjamin Franklin
  3. Nikola Tesla
  4. Abraham Lincoln
Grade 10 Evolution
Grade 11 Evolution
Grade 9 DNA, RNA, and Genetics
Who is renowned as the Father of Genetics?
  1. Gregor Mendel
  2. Charles Darwin
  3. Jean Baptiste Lamarck
College Evolution
Grade 9 Evolution
On the Galapagos Islands, Darwin observed that the characteristics of many animals and plants
  1. all looked alike.
  2. were acquired through use.
  3. varied from island to island.
  4. were inherited from humans.
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