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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14: Recapitulation and Conclusion.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following refers to offspring with parents from two different species?
(a) Mongrel.
(b) Hybrid.
(c) Inbreed.
(d) Normal.

2. What is unique about white cats with blue eyes?
(a) They are deaf.
(b) They do not reproduce.
(c) They are blind.
(d) They are not seen in the wild.

3. What do scientists find throughout the fossil record?
(a) Life.
(b) New species.
(c) Evolution.
(d) Flaws in nature.

4. What do large shifts in geology promote in species?
(a) Increased migration.
(b) Development of new variations.
(c) Development of new species.
(d) Development of new genera.

5. Organisms in which regions experience less competition?
(a) Deserts.
(b) Polar ice caps.
(c) Small islands.
(d) Mountain ranges.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are varieties domestically bred for?

2. What type of fossils may survive damaging geological changes?

3. What results as a climate becomes more hostile?

4. What is one way to observe the change in a species in a controlled environment?

5. What is the fate of traits that are neither helpful nor unhelpful for survival?

(see the answer key)

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