LIFE SCIENCES TEST 2018
CLASS TEST UNIT 5
SURNAME:__________MEMO___________________STUDENT NR._________________
QUESTION 1 [4]
Choose the alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question. Only
encircle the correct letter.
1.1 Biogeography help us to____
A) predict when and where different groups evolved.
B) Understand how living organisms may be produced from non-living matter.
C) Know the origin and development of an individual organism from embryo to
adult.
D) Understand Lamarck’s theory of evolution.
1.2 Which one (1) of the following is not a main observation made by Darwin on his
journey around the world?
A) Members of a population often are identical in their traits.
B) Traits are inherited from parents to offspring.
C) All species are capable of producing more offspring than the environment
can support
D) Owing to lack of food or other resources, many of offspring do not survive.
1.3 The diagram below shows an example of___
A) artificial selection.
B) punctuated equilibrium.
C) parasitism.
D) evolutionary adaptation.
1.4 Which of the following statements is an inference of natural selection?
A) Subsequent generations of a population should have greater
proportions of individuals that possess traits better suited for success.
B) An individual organism undergoes evolution over the course of its lifetime.
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CLASS TEST UNIT 5
SURNAME:__________MEMO___________________STUDENT NR._________________
QUESTION 1 [4]
Choose the alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question. Only
encircle the correct letter.
1.1 Biogeography help us to____
A) predict when and where different groups evolved.
B) Understand how living organisms may be produced from non-living matter.
C) Know the origin and development of an individual organism from embryo to
adult.
D) Understand Lamarck’s theory of evolution.
1.2 Which one (1) of the following is not a main observation made by Darwin on his
journey around the world?
A) Members of a population often are identical in their traits.
B) Traits are inherited from parents to offspring.
C) All species are capable of producing more offspring than the environment
can support
D) Owing to lack of food or other resources, many of offspring do not survive.
1.3 The diagram below shows an example of___
A) artificial selection.
B) punctuated equilibrium.
C) parasitism.
D) evolutionary adaptation.
1.4 Which of the following statements is an inference of natural selection?
A) Subsequent generations of a population should have greater
proportions of individuals that possess traits better suited for success.
B) An individual organism undergoes evolution over the course of its lifetime.
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