Review Questions Related to Evolution and its Processes

Review Questions Related to Evolution and its Processes

These multiple choice questions check for understanding of discovering how populations change, mechanisms of evolution, evidence of evolution, speciation, and common misconceptions about evolution.

Topics

  • adaptation
  • adaptive radiation
  • allopatric speciation
  • analogous structure
  • bottleneck effect
  • convergent evolution
  • dispersal
  • divergent evolution
  • founder effect
  • gene flow
  • gene pool
  • genetic drift
  • homologous structure
  • inheritance of acquired characteristics
  • macroevolution
  • microevolution
  • migration
  • modern synthesis
  • natural selection
  • population genetics
  • speciation
  • sympatric speciation
  • variation
  • vestigial structure
  • vicariance