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| Kettlewell showed that peppered moths mutate to a darker color in response to the darkening of tree bark in industrial areas of England |
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| The theory of uniformity is the idea that all species of organisms are subject to the same (uniform)selective pressures |
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| The theory of uniformity is a geological idea, which states that continual slow processes acting over a long period of time have shaped the earth as we know it today |
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| The biggest deficiency in modern evolutionary theory is the lack of transitional fossils, or "missing links" in the fossil record |
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| The phenomenon of industrial melanism in peppered moths illustrates which of the following |
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| The strong effect of natural selection mediated by a predator. |
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| The effects of artificial selection is ultimately limited by the amount of genetic variation present in a species |
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| Microevolution is the special circumstances of evolution of microscopic organisms such as bacteria |
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| Biogeography is the study of the geographic distribution of individual species and communities of organisms |
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| How did the finches on the Galapagos islands inspire Darwin's theory of natural selection? |
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| The species of finches are closely related, but are adapted to the unique habitats on the islands. |
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| Which of the following is an example of homologous structures |
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| The presence of a tail in all vertebrates |
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| Which of the following is a demonstration of evolutionary convergence |
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| Similar adaptations and body forms of marsupials and placental mammals in separate locations |
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| Horse evolution provides the best example of anagenesis - the slow, consistent transition of the entire species to larger body size |
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| Which of the following is a currently accepted theory? |
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| The half-life of radioactive carbon-14 is 5700 years. If an ancient ash sample contains one-eighth of the expected quantity of Carbon-14, how old is the sample? |
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