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EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY UNIT 1
(CLEMSON UNIVERSITY) 2026 REAL
QUESTIONS WITH EXPERTLY
VERIFIED ANSWERS.
1. What observations did Darwin make about mockingbird,
tortoises, and finches? - correct answer -Despite being their
own species, they looked subtly different island to island
2. What observation did Darwin make about finches? - correct
answer -Their bills were adapted for to fit foods available on
their respective islands
3. What observations did Darwin make about sloths? - correct
answer -Fossils of giant sloths were similar to extant, smaller
sloths
4. What observations did Wallace make about birdwing
butterflies? - correct answer -They had subtle differences from
island to island
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5. Four main points Darwin proposed about evolution - correct
answer -1. Individuals within species are variable
6. 2. Certain traits are heritable
7. 3. More offspring are produced than can survive
8. 4. Those with favorable variations reproduce
9. New insights on Darwin-Wallace theory - correct answer -
Individual selection as opposed to species, gradual change,
organisms evolve in response to environment, sexual selection,
new species emerge from selection
10. Contrast how Lamarck and Darwin thought species arose -
correct answer -Lamarck- species arrived independently
11. Darwin- common ancestry
12. Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium is used to test whether
________ are evolving, not _________. - correct answer -
Genes, populations
13. Consequences of Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium (there are 4) -
correct answer -Locus is in genetic equilibrium, allele
frequencies will predict genotype frequencies, genotype
EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY UNIT 1
(CLEMSON UNIVERSITY) 2026 REAL
QUESTIONS WITH EXPERTLY
VERIFIED ANSWERS.
1. What observations did Darwin make about mockingbird,
tortoises, and finches? - correct answer -Despite being their
own species, they looked subtly different island to island
2. What observation did Darwin make about finches? - correct
answer -Their bills were adapted for to fit foods available on
their respective islands
3. What observations did Darwin make about sloths? - correct
answer -Fossils of giant sloths were similar to extant, smaller
sloths
4. What observations did Wallace make about birdwing
butterflies? - correct answer -They had subtle differences from
island to island
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5. Four main points Darwin proposed about evolution - correct
answer -1. Individuals within species are variable
6. 2. Certain traits are heritable
7. 3. More offspring are produced than can survive
8. 4. Those with favorable variations reproduce
9. New insights on Darwin-Wallace theory - correct answer -
Individual selection as opposed to species, gradual change,
organisms evolve in response to environment, sexual selection,
new species emerge from selection
10. Contrast how Lamarck and Darwin thought species arose -
correct answer -Lamarck- species arrived independently
11. Darwin- common ancestry
12. Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium is used to test whether
________ are evolving, not _________. - correct answer -
Genes, populations
13. Consequences of Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium (there are 4) -
correct answer -Locus is in genetic equilibrium, allele
frequencies will predict genotype frequencies, genotype
