Science Quiz 85: Quiz on Evolution 3

Science Quiz 85: Quiz on Evolution 3

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1. Who coined the term 'Keystone species'?

Paul K Dayton
Robert T. Paine
Charles Darwin
Gregor Mendel

2. "Zoonomia; or the Laws of Organic Life" incorporates early ideas relating to the theory of evolution. Who authored the book?

Charles Darwin
Erasmus Darwin
Lamarck
Carl Linnaues

3. Darwin wrote about sexual selection in which of the following books?

The Origin of Species
The Voyage of the Beagle
The Power of Movement in Plants
The Descent of Man

4. A structure that seems to serve no purpose in an organism is called

Vestigial
Residuous
Deciduous
Rudimentary

5. Who proposed the idea of "Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics"?

Charles Darwin
Carl Linnaeus
Ernst Haeckel
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

6. Any alteration in the structure or function of an organism or any of its parts that results from natural selection and by which the organism becomes better fitted to survive and multiply in its environment is called

Mutation
Adaptation
Evolution
Altercation

7. The process used by humans to develop new organisms with desirable characteristics is called?

Selective breeding
Artificial insemination
Alternative breeding
Natural selection

8. The book "An Essay on the Principle of Population" is cited as a key influence by Charles Darwin in developing the theory of natural selection. Who authored the book?

Alfred Russel Wallace
Thomas Robert Malthus
Georges Cuvier
Charles Lyell

9. When groups from an ancestral population evolve into separate species due to a period of geographical separation, it is called

Sympatric speciation
Peripatric Speciation
Allopatric speciation
Parapatric Speciation

10. This French mathematician and philosopher proposed an early theory related to genetics as a way of understanding the inheritance of physical traits which is pointed out as a precursor to the development of evolutionary theory. Who is he?

Pierre Louis Maupertuis
J. B. S. Haldane
August Weismann
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

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