Evolution and Natural Selection Quiz
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1. In what year did Darwin publish On the Origin of Species?
- A. 1809
- B. 1859
- C. 1900
- D. 1958
2. What is natural selection?
- A. Random genetic engineering
- B. Individuals best suited to their environment surviving and breeding
- C. Humans breeding animals for chosen traits
- D. The inheritance of acquired characteristics
3. Why was Darwin's theory only slowly accepted?
- A. It had no supporting evidence at all
- B. It challenged religious views, evidence was limited, and the mechanism of inheritance was unknown for decades
- C. Wallace disagreed with it
- D. It was banned by the government
4. Which statement about Lamarck's theory is correct?
- A. It is now accepted as fully correct
- B. It proposed that acquired characteristics are inherited, and is now known to be incorrect in almost all cases
- C. It is identical to Darwin's theory
- D. It was proposed after Darwin's theory
5. Why can bacteria develop resistance to a new antibiotic within a relatively short time?
- A. Antibiotics cause bacteria to mutate deliberately
- B. Bacteria reproduce extremely rapidly, so a random resistant mutation can quickly spread through the population as resistant bacteria survive and reproduce
- C. All bacteria are naturally immune to antibiotics
- D. Antibiotics convert bacteria into resistant forms