1. Which of the following is more fit? - Answers 500 year old bristle come pine tree that produced 100
off spring every year
2.All of the following are true of evolution EXCEPT - Answers Individuals adapt their genes to improve
survival
6. Natural selection that favors survival of extreme phenotype a if a population is called - Answers
Diversifying selection
3. Which is necessary for natural selection to proceed? - Answers All of the above
8. Allele frequencies of a population can change by - Answers All of the above
4. Natural selection causes - Answers Change in allele frequencies within a population
5. All of the following are true of natural selection EXCEPT - Answers It works best in genetically uniform
populations
10. Frog species Nat's at diff times of the year. This is an example of which type of reproductive
isolation? - Answers Temporal isolation
11.Reproductive isolation based on location or geography is referred to as - Answers Ecological isolation
7. When extreme phenotype a are selected against and disappear, which pattern of natural selection is
at work? - Answers Stabilizing selection
9. The biological species concept defines a species as - Answers Members of a population that
interbreed and produce fertile offspring
12. Pollen from a tomato plant lands on a grapefruit flower. The pollen fails to grow a pollen tube. This is
an example of - Answers Gametic isolation
13. Which of the following can influence the evolution of a species, - Answers All of the above
14. Which of the following best points to a close evolutionary relationship between 2 different species? -
Answers Both species have a very similar DNA
15. The proportion of alleles present in a gene pool is called the ____ and js an important tool in
measuring evolutionary changes. - Answers Allele frequency
16. In a population of 100 mice, if the recession allele frequency is 0.25, how many copies of the
recessive alleles are found in the population? - Answers 50
18. Which of the following does NOT influence allele frequencies in a population? - Answers All of the
above influence allele frequencies in population