EVOLUTION ACTUAL TEST QUESTIONS
AND SOLUTIONS COMPREHENSIVE
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●● Adaption
Answer: Heritable characteristics that increases an organisms ability to
survive and reproduce in an environment.
●● Fitness
Answer: measurement. How well an organism can survive and
reproduce in an environment.
●● Natural Selection
Answer: The process in which organism with variations most suited for
their local environment survive and can leave more offspring.
●● Evolution
Answer: Change over time.
●● Descent with Modifications
Answer: Natural selection has changed the offspring over time.
, ●● Principle of Common Descent
Answer: All organisms, living and extinct, are descended from an
ancient common ancestor
●● Can Natural Selection create new traits? Explain.
Answer: No because natural selection only acts on inherited traits.
●● Does natural selection make organisms "better"?
Answer: No because the only ones that are well suited for the
environment survive.
●● Describe Lyell and Hutton's theory of uniformitarianism. Give at
least two pieces of evidence for this concept.
Answer: They believed that the Earth was extremely old and process that
changed Earth in the past same as we see now. Ex. Rocks and movement
of Earth's rock layers.
●● Describe Lamarck's theory about acquired traits. Give an example of
this concept.
Answer: Organisms can change during their lifetime by selective use of
traits. Ex. Giraffe necks,
●● What were Thomas Malthus's ideas?
AND SOLUTIONS COMPREHENSIVE
REVIEW PACKAGE
●● Adaption
Answer: Heritable characteristics that increases an organisms ability to
survive and reproduce in an environment.
●● Fitness
Answer: measurement. How well an organism can survive and
reproduce in an environment.
●● Natural Selection
Answer: The process in which organism with variations most suited for
their local environment survive and can leave more offspring.
●● Evolution
Answer: Change over time.
●● Descent with Modifications
Answer: Natural selection has changed the offspring over time.
, ●● Principle of Common Descent
Answer: All organisms, living and extinct, are descended from an
ancient common ancestor
●● Can Natural Selection create new traits? Explain.
Answer: No because natural selection only acts on inherited traits.
●● Does natural selection make organisms "better"?
Answer: No because the only ones that are well suited for the
environment survive.
●● Describe Lyell and Hutton's theory of uniformitarianism. Give at
least two pieces of evidence for this concept.
Answer: They believed that the Earth was extremely old and process that
changed Earth in the past same as we see now. Ex. Rocks and movement
of Earth's rock layers.
●● Describe Lamarck's theory about acquired traits. Give an example of
this concept.
Answer: Organisms can change during their lifetime by selective use of
traits. Ex. Giraffe necks,
●● What were Thomas Malthus's ideas?
