Overview The final for this competency will be a twenty (20) question Objective Assessment. You must score 80% or more in order to achieve this competency. You have 180 minutes to complete each attempt. Each attempt will count towards your total three attempts to achieve this competency. Please contact Assignment Samurai for help with BL1006 Assessment or any other assignment. Email: assignmentsamurai@gmail.com   Instructions Before you start, make sure to check the following items:

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  BL1006 Assessment QUIZ Which geological era hosted huge dinosaurs? Mesozoic   A visual predatory fish is added to a population of guppies living in a pond where there had previously been no guppy predators. What is the most likely outcome? The guppies will evolve to become less colorful.   What is it called when humans control reproduction between individual organisms and thus, change the characteristics of the population? Artificial selection   Natural selection requires which of the following phenomenon in order to occur? A population in which individual genotypes vary.   Natural selection can be best described as ____. a process in which some traits are removed from a population   Prokaryotes include which of the following? Archaea; Bacteria   After a rapid change in climate, one species of bird quickly adapts to the change, but others in the area do not. What is the most likely conclusion about the quickly adapting species? They already had some alleles in their genome that were adaptive in the new environment.   Which of Darwin's foundational observations regarding natural selection was found in the modern synthesis to be virtually guaranteed by the genetic mutations? There are many variants within a population.   Which geological period is the oldest or earliest? Precambrian   In the modern tree of life based on RNA data, the earliest divergence of living forms was between: Archaea and Bacteria   Humans belong to which of the following phyla? Chordata   Which of the following is one of Darwin's foundational observations regarding natural selection? Some of the variation in individuals can be inherited by offspring.   Which of the following groups of life does not include any unicellular members? A) Prokaryotes B) Eukaryotes C) Bacteria D) Protista E) Plantae Plantae   In order for the theory of natural selection to be supported, what can we infer about the genetic material for all life? It must vary spontaneously.   Life-forms with cells that do not contain a nucleus are best referred to as _______. prokaryotes   According to the endosymbiotic theory _____ evolved from ________. eukaryotes, prokaryotes   Which of the following best characterizes an important aspect of the theory of natural selection? Populations produce more offspring than will survive.   Imagine a population of rodents that is subject to attacks from several types of predators. The predators are only able to kill the rodents that are either too small to defend themselves and escape, or too large to hide in holes where the predators cannot enter. In time, the rodent population evolves into a population with relatively uniform size, large enough to defend themselves but also small enough to be able to hide. This would be an example of _______. stabilizing selection   In which geological era did humans evolve? Cenozoic   After visiting the doctor for a cold, Joe's doctor prescribes antibiotics to kill off the pathogenic bacteria. Joe takes the antibiotic for a few days until he feels better. He does not take the full regime of antibiotics. A few days later he starts feeling ill again. This time when he takes the antibiotics they don't help. What happened? Some bacteria survived, and the population evolved to become resistant to the antibiotic.