Quiz  /  Evolution Class 12 MCQ Questions With Answers

  • 1. 
    Differences in physical traits of an individual from the group to which it belongs

  • Adaptation
  • Variation
  • Fittness
  • Natural Selection

  • 2. 
    What is an inherited characteristic that helps organisms survive?

  • Evolution
  • Adaptation
  • Natural Selection
  • Extinction

  • 3. 
    A population moving from on place to another.

  • speciation
  • geographic isolation
  • genetic drift
  • migration

  • 4. 
    Mechanism by which individuals that have inherited beneficial adaptions produce more offspring on average than do other individuals

  • Fitness
  • Natural Selection
  • Evolution
  • Artificial Selection

  • 5. 
    A mistake or change that occurs in the DNA sequence is called a ______________________.

  • Extinction
  • Speciation
  • Mutation
  • Genetic Variation

  • 6. 
    Group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring.

  • species
  • gene pool
  • population
  • homologous structure

  • 7. 
    A change in the genetic information (DNA).

  • Mutation
  • Speciation
  • Migration
  • Evolution

  • 8. 
    Scientist who proposed the theory of Natural Selection.

  • Hardy
  • Weinburg
  • Darwin
  • Einstein

  • 9. 
    Gradual change in a population through adaptations over time.

  • migration
  • directional selection
  • evolution
  • speciation

  • 10. 
    Physical or behavioral characteristics that increase chances of survival/reproduction

  • microevolution
  • macroevolution
  • adaptation
  • allele

  • 11. 
    Measure of an organisms's ability to survive and produce offspring relative to other members of a population

  • Natural Selection
  • Adaptation
  • Fitness
  • Variation

  • 12. 
    Survival and reproduction of organisms the are best suited in their environment

  • natural selection
  • extinction
  • biodiversity
  • acquired characteristics

  • 13. 
    When there is a difference in population based on genes, it is said to be a _______________.

  • Mutation
  • Speciation
  • Extinction
  • Genetic Variation

  • 14. 
    The process in which an animal cannot reproduce any more and dies out is known as _________________________.

  • Speciation
  • Extinction
  • Evolution
  • Natural Selection

  • 15. 
    Group of organisms all of the same species, living in the same place at the same time.

  • gene pool
  • population
  • species
  • evolution

  • 16. 
    Natural selection is the process that passes down ____________________ traits.

  • Same
  • Old
  • Useless
  • Favorable

  • 17. 
    Darwin referred to this as survival of the fittest. Over time, it results in changes in the inherited characteristics of a population.

  • Natural Selection
  • Genetic Variation
  • Survival of the Fittest
  • Extinction

  • 18. 
    Small differences of a particular trait

  • gene pool
  • mutation
  • variation
  • continental drift

  • 19. 
    Evolution is...

  • changes over time in populations
  • natural process that passes favorable traits
  • historical timeline of fossils
  • the process in which an animal dies out
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