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Unit 2.13 - Unit 2 Test

The document outlines a Unit 2 Test focused on evolution, covering key concepts such as evolutionary change, fitness, artificial selection, and the fossil record. It includes questions that assess knowledge, thinking, communication, and application related to evolutionary theory and mechanisms. The test requires complete sentences and grade-appropriate language for responses.

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Unit 2.13 - Unit 2 Test

The document outlines a Unit 2 Test focused on evolution, covering key concepts such as evolutionary change, fitness, artificial selection, and the fossil record. It includes questions that assess knowledge, thinking, communication, and application related to evolutionary theory and mechanisms. The test requires complete sentences and grade-appropriate language for responses.

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Knowledge Thinking Communication Application

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UNIT 2 TEST
Answer all aspects of each question and in complete sentence and in grade appropriate language.

Knowledge:

1. What is evolution?
2. What is evolutionary change?
3. What is evolutionary fitness?
4. What is a selective advantage?
5. What is the only source of genetic variation?
6. What are the different types of genetic mutation?
7. Which type of mutation persists in the population and why?
8. Explain how artificial selection works?
9. What are 2 limitations of artificial selection?
10. What are two implications of artificial selection?
11. What does immutable mean?
12. What is a fossil? How are they formed? What environmental condition makes for the best
fossils?

Thinking:

13. What is the fossil record?


14. Why were scientists interested in the fossil record?
15. What was Cuvier known for? What was his theory called?
16. What is Charles Lyell known for? Why was it controversial?
17. What is Lamarck’s theory of evolution?
18. What two principles was Lamarck’s theory based on?
19. What was the major flaw of Lamarck’s theory?
20. What significant findings did Darwin find while on his journey?
21. What was the significance of the finches? Tortoises? Megatherium and Glyptydon fossils?
Communication:

22. What five observations did Darwin make? What inferences did these lead to?
23. What is Darwin’s theory of natural selection?
24. What is stabilizing selection?
25. What is directional selection?
26. What is disruptive selection?
27. What is sexual selection?
28. What are the two main types of sexual? What factors contribute to those types of sexual
selection?
29. What are three examples of natural selection in action?
30. What is industrial melanism? How was the peppered moth affected by this?

Application:

31. What are homologous features? Why are they significant?


a. State an example
32. What are analogous features? Why are they significant?
a. State an example

33. What are vestigial features? Why are they significant?


a. State an example

34. What is biogeography? Why is this significant?


a. State an example
35. What is radiometric dating? Why is this significant?
36. What are pseudogenes features? Why are they significant?
a. State an example
37. Snakes during their fetal development contain limb buds, but as the snake matures it loses these
limb buds and the limbs never form. Explain how snakes evolved to lose their limbs by natural
selection. What kind of structure are limb buds considered to be?
38. What is the bottleneck effect?
39. What is genetic drift?
40. What is the founder effect?
41. What is allele frequency?
42. What is the Hardy-Weinburg principle?

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