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Test 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Geographic isolation can lead to new forms in a process known as sympatric speciation | False |
| An example of prezygotic isolation mechanism is | Temporal isolation |
| A gene that has 2 or more alleles is said to be | Polymorphic |
| Marsupials existing almost exclusively in Australia is an example of | Biogeography |
| Dogs and wolves are the same species: Canis lupus | True |
| Which of the following provides evidence for evolutionary change | Homologies |
| What scientist has similar ideas for descent with modification | Alfred Russell Wallace |
| Which of the following is not a domain of life | Protozoa |
| The transfer of DNA from one bacterium to another is called | Horizontal gene transfer |
| Which of the following is not a mechanism of evolution | Artificial selection |
| Male moose using their antlers to fight for breeding rights is an example of | Intrasexual selection |
| The fishapod Tiktaalik is an example of | All of the above |
| For a population to be in Hardy Weinberg Equilibrium, all mating has to be nonrandom | False |
| The arrival of a new allele that introduces higher fitness can lead to which kind of selection | Directional selection |
| Antifreeze proteins evolving in cold water fish that come from different lineages is an example of | Convergent evolution |
| The branch of evolutionary study that focuses on changes at the level of genes and protein is | Molecular evolution |
| A full species name includes the genus, and should be italicized, according to the rules of binomial nomenclature | True |
| The hypothesis that earth has been shaped over tie by sudden, violent events is | Catastrophism |
| The study of genes in a group of individuals of the same species is | Population genetics |
| The ability of an organism to successfully reproduce is called | Fitness |