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Evolution 101
1. 1. According to the video, what are the two key ingredients to natural selection?
1. Predation and the environment
2. Reproduction and predation
3. Reproduction and variation (correct)
4. The environment and variation
2. 2. What does “the fittest” mean in an evolutionary sense?
1. The strongest
2. The longest lived
3. The most reproductively successful (correct)
4. The best able to avoid being eaten
3. 3. Evolution is:
1. Fixed in one direction
2. Completely random
3. Neither entirely fixed nor entirely random (correct)
4. 4. According to the video, what is the goal of the tree of life?
1. To summarize the fossil record
2. To describe how natural selection works
3. To be a library of all life that has ever lived
4. To explain how all species are related to each other (correct)
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The bird is eating a brown bug. He’s eating the brown bug because it stands out among
the green. This illustrates natural selection because it shows that the bug involved to be
the same color of the leaf to survive.
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Training Trees
1. 1. What does the circled node represent?
1. The common ancestor species of A and B
2. A speciation event
3. Both a and b (correct)
2. 2. Which way does time run on this tree?
1. From root to branch tip (correct)
2. Across branch tips, from left to right
3. 3. Which lived more recently in time, the common ancestor species of A and B or
the common ancestor species of B and C?
1. Common ancestor species of A and B
2. Common ancestor species of B and C (correct)
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Use your answers to questions 3 and 4 to explain
A and B B and C why B and C are more closely related to each other
than A and C are.
B and C are more closely related to each other
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Trait1 Trait1 and 3 than A and C because they share two of the same
traits while A and C only share one and they share
a more recent common ancestor.
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Tree 1 shows the exact relationship as the tree above.
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mission1-quiz3
1. 6. Under a microscope, the cells of mushrooms, plants, and animals all have visible
nuclei. This makes them all:
1. Heterotrophs
2. Eukaryotic (correct)
3. Prokaryotic
4. Autotrophs
2. 7. What trait do the mushroom and gecko share that the tree lacks?
1. cells with nuclei
2. photosynthetic autotroph
3. heterotrophic (correct)
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I think this is more surprising because in a way people consider fungus to be plants.
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An amniote is an animal whose embryos develop inside an amniotic egg. The Dog and
King snake
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I would put mammary glands (means they can produce milk).
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seaweed
1. 12. What makes the seaweed different from all the other plants on this tree?
1. It has leaves.
2. It is a photosynthetic autotroph.
3. It uses spores to reproduce. (correct)
4. It’s a vegetable.
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lemon or onion
It may be surprising to people that onions and bananas are closely related because we
group food together by how they look and taste.
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