{
  "id": "330d8b6e-e685-593d-9b62-247d3b2b1233",
  "slug": "evolution-and-natural-selection",
  "title": "Evolution and natural selection",
  "course": "General Biology",
  "questionCount": 19,
  "page": "https://splycr.com/general-biology/evolution-and-natural-selection",
  "data": "https://splycr.com/library/evolution-and-natural-selection.json",
  "play": "https://splycr.com/?set=330d8b6e-e685-593d-9b62-247d3b2b1233",
  "source": {
    "name": "Biology by Bradford",
    "href": "https://www.biologybybradford.com",
    "note": "Written for the splycr library by Biology by Bradford."
  },
  "questions": [
    {
      "number": 1,
      "question": "Scientist who set out evolution by natural selection in On the Origin of Species (1859)?",
      "answer": "Charles Darwin",
      "wrongOptions": [
        "Gregor Mendel",
        "Jean-Baptiste Lamarck",
        "Alfred Russel Wallace"
      ]
    },
    {
      "number": 2,
      "question": "Naturalist whose 1858 letter from south-east Asia, describing the same idea, prompted Darwin to publish?",
      "answer": "Alfred Russel Wallace",
      "wrongOptions": [
        "Jean-Baptiste Lamarck",
        "Gregor Mendel",
        "Charles Lyell"
      ]
    },
    {
      "number": 3,
      "question": "Rejected idea that characteristics acquired during a lifetime are passed to offspring?",
      "answer": "Lamarckism",
      "wrongOptions": [
        "Darwinism",
        "Mendelism",
        "Creationism"
      ]
    },
    {
      "number": 4,
      "question": "Process by which individuals best suited to their environment survive and reproduce more?",
      "answer": "Natural selection",
      "wrongOptions": [
        "Artificial insemination",
        "Genetic engineering",
        "Mutation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "number": 5,
      "question": "Change in the inherited characteristics of a population over many generations?",
      "answer": "Evolution",
      "wrongOptions": [
        "Variation",
        "Adaptation",
        "Mutation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "number": 6,
      "question": "Differences between individuals of the same species?",
      "answer": "Variation",
      "wrongOptions": [
        "Adaptation",
        "Evolution",
        "Speciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "number": 7,
      "question": "Original source of new alleles in a population?",
      "answer": "Mutation",
      "wrongOptions": [
        "Competition",
        "Extinction",
        "Migration"
      ]
    },
    {
      "number": 8,
      "question": "Feature that helps an organism survive in its environment?",
      "answer": "Adaptation",
      "wrongOptions": [
        "Mutation",
        "Variation",
        "Extinction"
      ]
    },
    {
      "number": 9,
      "question": "Humans choosing parents with useful characteristics to produce offspring with those traits?",
      "answer": "Selective breeding",
      "wrongOptions": [
        "Natural selection",
        "Genetic engineering",
        "Cloning"
      ]
    },
    {
      "number": 10,
      "question": "When an antibiotic is used, the bacteria that are killed first are the…?",
      "answer": "Non-resistant ones",
      "wrongOptions": [
        "Resistant ones",
        "Oldest ones",
        "Largest ones"
      ]
    },
    {
      "number": 11,
      "question": "Preserved remains or traces of organisms found in rock?",
      "answer": "Fossils",
      "wrongOptions": [
        "Sediments",
        "Minerals",
        "Crystals"
      ]
    },
    {
      "number": 12,
      "question": "Formation of a new kind of organism that can no longer interbreed with the original population?",
      "answer": "Speciation",
      "wrongOptions": [
        "Extinction",
        "Adaptation",
        "Mutation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "number": 13,
      "question": "Two organisms belong to the same species if they can breed to produce…?",
      "answer": "Fertile offspring",
      "wrongOptions": [
        "Any offspring",
        "Sterile offspring",
        "Identical offspring"
      ]
    },
    {
      "number": 14,
      "question": "Permanent loss of every member of a species?",
      "answer": "Extinction",
      "wrongOptions": [
        "Speciation",
        "Migration",
        "Adaptation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "number": 15,
      "question": "Separation of populations by a barrier such as a mountain range, which can lead to new species?",
      "answer": "Geographical isolation",
      "wrongOptions": [
        "Selective breeding",
        "Natural variation",
        "Genetic engineering"
      ]
    },
    {
      "number": 16,
      "question": "Dark peppered moths became more common in sooty industrial areas because they were…?",
      "answer": "Better camouflaged",
      "wrongOptions": [
        "Faster fliers",
        "More poisonous",
        "Larger"
      ]
    },
    {
      "number": 17,
      "question": "Feature of Darwin's finches that differs between species, matching their diets?",
      "answer": "Beak shape",
      "wrongOptions": [
        "Feather colour",
        "Wing span",
        "Eye colour"
      ]
    },
    {
      "number": 18,
      "question": "Islands where Darwin studied finches and giant tortoises?",
      "answer": "Galápagos Islands",
      "wrongOptions": [
        "Canary Islands",
        "Falkland Islands",
        "Hawaiian Islands"
      ]
    },
    {
      "number": 19,
      "question": "Five-digit bone pattern shared by a bat's wing, a whale's flipper and a human arm?",
      "answer": "Pentadactyl limb",
      "wrongOptions": [
        "Vestigial organ",
        "Analogous structure",
        "Fossil record"
      ]
    }
  ]
}