Isolations Hardy Weinberg Finch Speciation

1. A group of similar organisms that can interbreed and produce viable, fertile offspring is a...?

A) organisms
B) clade
C) community
D) species

2. Mechanisms that restrict gene flow are what type of isolating mechanisms?

A) hybrid inviability
B) hybrid sterility
C) reproductive
D) prezygotic

3. If the geographic ranges of two species overlap but their needs or breeding requirements differ significantly this results in what type of isolation?

A) mechanical
B) gametic
C) ecological
D) behavioral

4. If breeding seasons differ then organisms can experience what type of isolation?

A) temporal
B) ecological
C) gametic
D) behavioral

5. If complex courtship rituals are performed by a species what type of reproductive isolation may they experience?

A) temporal
B) behavioral
C) mechanical
D) gametic

6. Morphological differences can cause what type of reproductive isolation?

A) behavioral
B) gametic
C) mechanical
D) ecological

7. If organisms are separated by a river, mountains, or other physical feature of the earth, what type of reproductive isolation may occur?

A) geographic
B) mechanical
C) behavioral
D) gametic

8. If the egg and sperm of two species are incompatible, what type of reproductive isolation occurs?

A) ecological
B) gametic
C) mechanical
D) behavioral

9. The change in the frequencies of alleles in a gene pool is ...?

A) mutation
B) genetic equilibrium
C) microevolution
D) extinction

10. The Hardy-Weinberg principle says that evolution will occur unless how many conditions are met?

A) 10
B) 8
C) 9
D) 7

11. Which of the following is a condition that must be met for no evolution to occur?

A) mating is random
B) no natural selection happens
C) no mutations happen
D) all of these answers

12. What did Darwin hypothesize about the finches on the Galapagos?

A) They all descended from a common ancestor.
B) They all had beaks for breaking hard seeds.
C) They all were going extinct.
D) Their beak sizes changed as the weather changed.

13. What did Darwin say had caused the finches to have different beak sizes?

A) the weather
B) Natural selection
C) reproductive isolation
D) gene pools

14. Why did the finches on the Galapagos need different sizes of beaks?

A) They flew to different islands.
B) They mated with different species.
C) They ate different foods.
D) They built different nests.

15. Which of the following is a testable assumption on which Darwin's hypothesis about the Galapagos finches was based?

A) Beak differences must cause differences in fitness.
B) Finches all eat the same type of food.
C) Finches were blown by a storm from the mainland.
D) Finches attract mates through courtship rituals.

16. How did the Grants test Darwin's assumptions?

A) They gave the birds different foods so their beak sizes would change.
B) They did laboratory experiments that proved Darwin was right.
C) They caught and measured every bird on the island for thirty years.
D) They observed natural selection in action.

17. What type of evolution does the Grants data support?

A) microevolution
B) Darwiniaism
C) mutation
D) macroevolution

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