Please choose the best answer to the following questions.

1.			Which of the following is an isolating mechanism that can prevent the production of fertile hybrid offspring?
			A)	ecological
			B)	seasonal
			C)	mechanical
			D)	All of the above.
2.			Speciation occurs when
			A)	a population lives at the opposite end of a niche.
			B)	a population is isolated from others in its species.
			C)	a population develops a reproductive isolating mechanism.
			D)	All of the above.
3.			A macromutation
			A)	prevents the production of fertile offspring.
			B)	has extensive and important phenotypic results.
			C)	is always beneficial to a species.
			D)	takes a long time to create a new species.
4.			How many named species are living today?
			A)	50,000
			B)	150,000
			C)	1.5 million
			D)	100 million
5.			Which of the following compose the bulk of the world’s biomass?
			A)	microbes
			B)	plants
			C)	Homo sapiens
			D)	rodents
6.			Adaptive radiation
			A)	is the view, held by Darwin, that evolution is slow and steady, with cumulative change.
			B)	is any difference that prevents the production of fertile offspring between members of two populations.
			C)	occurs when a species has adapted to a narrow range of environmental niches.
			D)	is the evolution and spreading out of related species into new niches.
7.			Adaptive radiation occurs under which of the following circumstances?
			A)	When an environment supports no similar and therefore no competing species.
			B)	When extensive extinction empties a set of environments of competing species.
			C)	When a new group of related species is adaptively generalized and is able to disperse successfully into different niches and displace species already there.
			D)	All of the above.
8.			Darwin’s finches in the Galapagos are an example of what kind of adaptive radiation?
			A)	When an environment supports no similar and therefore no competing species.
			B)	When extensive extinction empties a set of environments of competing species.
			C)	When a new group of related species is adaptively generalized and is able to disperse successfully into different niches and displace species already there.
			D)	When a nuclear power plant explodes and the radiation produces new species.
9.			To say that a primate is diurnal means that
			A)	it has primitive features, most closely resembling the ancient primates.
			B)	it is active at night.
			C)	it is active during the day.
			D)	it is adapted to a wide range of environmental niches.
10.			Adaptive variation around a norm, rather than in one direction, in response to environmental variation in a species’ habitat is the definition of
			A)	oscillating selection.
			B)	micromutations.
			C)	macromutations.
			D)	punctuated equilibrium.
11.			Species’ tendency to remain stable, with evolutionary changes occurring fairly suddenly, through the evolution of new species branching from existing ones, is the definition of
			A)	oscillating selection.
			B)	micromutations.
			C)	macromutations.
			D)	punctuated equilibrium.
12.			Which of the following is considered a pseudoscience?
			A)	biological anthropology
			B)	palmistry
			C)	evolution
			D)	linguistics
13.			The belief in a literal biblical interpretation regarding the creation of the universe, with the connected belief that this view is supported by scientific evidence, is called
			A)	scientific creationism.
			B)	punctuated equilibrium.
			C)	intelligent design.
			D)	None of the above.
14.			Scientific creationism is
			A)	a belief system.
			B)	a pseudoscience.
			C)	not testable.
			D)	All the above.
15.			The idea that a clever creator played a role in some aspect of the evolution of life on earth is called
			A)	scientific creationism.
			B)	punctuated equilibrium.
			C)	intelligent design.
			D)	None of the above.