Study Guide for Life Science Test Name:_____________________

Define the following terms:

Natural Selection Selective breeding Genetic Engineering

Variation Clone Gradualism

Overproduction Hybridization Punctuated Equilibrium

Evolution Adaptation Gene Therapy

Anatomical Gene Ancestor

Answer the following questions:

1. How does natural selection lead to Evolution?

2. What did Charles Darwin discover about organisms in his time on the Galapagos Islands?

3. What types of evidence do scientists use to determine the evolutionary relationships among specie?

4. If a species separates what can happen to the separated part of the species?

5. How does the process of natural selection work?

6. Explain an example of hybridization.

7. Explain and example of gradualism.

8. What type of adaptations do plants have to survive in the desert?

9. Give an anatomical example of how three organisms could have shared a common ancestor.

10. What factors influence natural selection?

 11. Explain the purpose of a cladogram. How do you make one and read one?

Additional Review Questions:

1. True or False: Natural Selection & Artificial selection only acts on traits that are inherited from parents.

2. What is gradualism?

3. What is natural selection?

4. What is artificial selection?

5. What is another name for artificial selection?

6. Why would humans consider pesticide/disease resistant crops beneficial? How could
antibiotic resistant bacteria be harmful?
7. True or False- All finches are the same.

8. What is a cladogram?

9. Who developed the Theory of Evolution?

10. What are the three components of natural selection?

11. What are some examples of geographic isolation? How can it impact a species?

12. What do you call a trait that helps an organism survive and reproduce?

13. What do you call an identical copy of a parent?

14. A bunny population changes from brown to white as a result of environmental changes going from
warmer to colder. This an example of what?
15. Why is variation important?
16. Would milk farmers most likely use artificial selection or natural selection and why?
17. What are the two rates of evolution?
18. Why are animals on the Galapagos Island different?
19. Describe punctuated equilibrium.
20. What is an inherited trait?