Natural Selection
Genetic Drift
Speciation
Ecology
Biotechnology
100

Does the following situation describe natural selection or artificial selection? Following the Industrial Revolution, policies were enacted to reduce air pollution. Following these policies, the population of light-colored moths increased. 

Natural selection

100

True or false: With genetic drift alleles become more or less common in large populations.

False

100

True or False: Reproductive isolation can lead to the formation of new species

True

100

What is the maximum number of organisms that the environment can support?

Carrying capacity

100

What is one way that gel electrophoresis separates DNA?

By size, by charge and shape

200

What do we call something that improves an organism's ability to survive?

Adaptation

200

What is an allele?

A form or version of a gene

200

What type of reproductive isolation is the result of being separated by bodies of water or mountain ranges?

Geographic isolation

200

True or false: A population includes abiotic factors

False

200

What end of the gel electrophoresis apparatus do we load DNA?

The negative end

300
A stone fish appears as a stone on the sea floor by attaching algae to itself. What type of camouflage is this?

Self-decoration

300

What is an example of a phenotype?

Height, hair color, beak size, birth mass

300

What is being demonstrated by Darwin's finches adapting to islands with different kinds of available food?

Adaptive Radiation

300

Deer and rabbits feed on the same type of grassy vegetation. How would you describe their species interaction?

Interspecific competition

300

Restriction enzymes certain DNA sequences and make cuts that leave overhangs called ___________. 

Sticky ends

400

If average-sized seeds decrease, birds with smaller and larger beaks are better equipped to survive on small and large-sized seeds. What type of selection is described?

Disruptive selection

400

A fire devastates a forest population of deer and leaves some survivors. The survivors represent a portion of the gene pool. What type of effect is being demonstrated in this population?

Bottleneck Effect

400

Some insects have been able to alter or eliminate the poisons that evolved plants produce. What is this an example of?

Coevolution

400

What is an example of a density-dependent factor?

Competition, disease, predation

400

What is the process called that we use to insert a recombinant plasmid into a bacterial cell?

Bacterial transformation

500

Name one of the 4 factors that results in evolution

1) The potential for a species to increase in number

2) The heritable genetic variation of individuals in a species due to a mutation and sexual reproduction

3) Competition for limited resources

4) The proliferation of those organisms that are able to better survive and reproduce in the environment.

500

How does the mechanism of genetic drift differ from the mechanism of natural selection?

The frequency of alleles is not determined by which traits are more favorable, they are determined by chance.
500

With convergent evolution, unrelated organisms appear to resemble one another. What are the structures that look similar in these organisms called?

Analogous structures

500
In 2019, a disease broke out in a population of African elephants, which caused large-scale death. Later that year water supply decreased, and members of the elephant population emigrated to a new area. What would likely be the effect on the African elephant population?

Decrease in population

500

A gene that makes it possible to distinguish bacteria that carry a plasmid (and the foreign DNA) from those that don’t is called a(an)

genetic/ selective marker

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