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Which of the following observations helped Darwin shape his concept of descent with modification?

A) Species diversity declines further from the equator.
B) Fewer species live on islands than on the nearest continents.
C) Birds live on islands located further from the mainland than the birds' maximum nonstop flight distance.
D) Australian temperate plants are more similar to Australian tropical plants than to the temperate plants of Europe.

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Within six months of effectively using methicillin to treat S. aureus infections in a community, all new S.aureus infections were caused by MRSA. How can this best be explained?

A) A patient must have become infected with MRSA from another community.
B) In response to the drug, S. aureus began making drug-resistant versions of the protein targeted by the drug.
C) Some drug-resistant bacteria were present at the start of treatment, and natural selection increased their frequency.
D) S. aureus evolved to resist vaccines.

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If the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus experiences a cost for maintaining one or more antibiotic-resistance genes, what would happen in environments that lack antibiotics?

Currently, two of the living elephant species (X and Y) are placed in the genus Loxodonta, and a third surviving species (Z) is placed in the genus Elephas. Assuming this classification reflects evolutionary relatedness, which of the following is the most accurate phylogenetic tree?

A farmer uses triazine herbicide to control pigweed in his field. For the first few years, the triazine works well and almost all the pigweed dies; but after several years, the farmer sees more and more pigweed. Which of these statements explains why the pigweed reappeared?

The horizontal axis of the cladogram depicted below is a timeline that extends from 100,000 years ago to the present; the vertical axis represents nothing in particular. The labelled branch points on the tree (V-Z) represent various common ancestors. Let's say that only since 50,000 years ago has there been enough variation between the lineages depicted here to separate them into distinct species, and only the tips of the lineages on this tree represent distinct species. In Darwin's tree of life, each fork in the tree represents ________.

Which one of the following observations did Darwin first make during his discovery of evolution?

What must be true of any organ described as vestigial?

Given what we know about evolutionary biology, we expect to find the largest number of endemic species in which of the following geological features, which have existed for at least a few million years?

About 13 different species of finches inhabit the Galápagos Islands today, all descendants of a common ancestor from the South American mainland that arrived a few million years ago. Genetically, there are four distinct lineages, but the thirteen species are currently classified among three genera. The first lineage to diverge from the ancestral lineage was the warbler finch (genus Certhidea) . Next to diverge was the vegetarian finch (genus Camarhynchus) , followed by five tree finch species (also in genus Camarhynchus) and six ground finch species (genus Geospiza) . If the six ground finch species have evolved most recently, then which of these is the most logical prediction?

What are adaptations?

If x indicates the location of fossils of two closely related species, then fossils of their most-recent common ancestor are most likely to occur in which stratum?

Which of the following factors could cause a surge in population size?

Which statement illustrates the connection between natural selection and overreproduction of a population?

Darwin used the phrase "descent with modification" to explain ________.

The upper forelimbs of humans and bats have fairly similar skeletal structures, whereas the corresponding bones in whales have very different shapes and proportions. However, genetic data suggest that all three kinds of organisms diverged from a common ancestor at about the same time. Which of the following is the most likely explanation for these data?

Fossils found in strata reveal that ________.

Pseudogenes are ________.

Which of the following statements describe evolution?

Darwin and Wallace's theory of evolution by natural selection was revolutionary because it ________.