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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is the practice of purposeful selection seen throughout history?
(a) Relics from ancient civilizations.
(b) No change in species.
(c) Natural change in species.
(d) Written records.

2. Who believed that humans would fall into starvation because they could not meet the needs of the population?
(a) Darwin.
(b) Maltus.
(c) Hooker.
(d) Newton.

3. What happens to a species if their traits and characteristics are not passed down to the next generation?
(a) They will change.
(b) They will become unique species.
(c) They will grow.
(d) They will become extinct.

4. Which of the following occurs when one type of variation causes variation in another part of an organism?
(a) Normal variation.
(b) Correlation of growth.
(c) Misallocation of variation.
(d) Mulitvariation.

5. Which term refers to organisms with no distinct gender?
(a) Single cell.
(b) Hermaphrodite.
(c) Polymorphic.
(d) Neutral.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which species require more years for change?

2. Why are some useless organs sill found in animals?

3. What can some amount of variation be attributed to?

4. What type of populations experience more variations?

5. Why would one organism be able to survive in a climate that another could not?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is the eye used as an example of an organ too complex to be explained by natural selection?

2. Why are the laws of inheritance still not understood?

3. How can the geology of mountains and valleys be related to natural selection?

4. Why would, on some islands, nature select for beetles that do not fly?

5. How does the growth of a population work?

6. Why isn't it safe to assume that regions that are physically connected in the present day were connected in the past?

7. Why is natural selection much broader than domestic selection by humans?

8. Why does Darwin feel the distinction between species variations is arbitrary?

9. Why does Darwin suggest his methods of study are inadequate?

10. What must be examined in order for Darwin's theory to be considered plausible?

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