Genomics and Evolutionary Biology Quiz

Test your knowledge in genomics and evolutionary biology with 15 challenging questions covering key concepts and scientists.

#1

Which scientist is credited with proposing the theory of evolution by natural selection?

Charles Darwin
Gregor Mendel
Louis Pasteur
Alfred Russel Wallace
#2

What is the fundamental unit of heredity?

Gene
Chromosome
Allele
Nucleotide
#3

Which scientist discovered the structure of DNA?

James Watson
Francis Crick
Rosalind Franklin
Linus Pauling
#4

What is the term for the movement of alleles from one population to another?

Gene flow
Genetic drift
Founder effect
Bottleneck effect
#5

What is the term for the phenomenon where an organism exhibits traits that enhance its survival and reproductive success in its environment?

Adaptation
Mutation
Speciation
Extinction
#6

Which of the following is not a type of point mutation?

Missense mutation
Nonsense mutation
Silent mutation
Chromosomal inversion
#7

What is the term for the phenomenon where individuals with intermediate phenotypes are favored in natural selection?

Stabilizing selection
Directional selection
Disruptive selection
Genetic drift
#8

What is the term for the process by which segments of DNA are cut and recombined to produce new combinations of alleles?

Transduction
Transformation
Recombination
Transposition
#9

Which evolutionary biologist proposed the idea of punctuated equilibrium?

Richard Dawkins
Stephen Jay Gould
Edward O. Wilson
Ernst Mayr
#10

Which evolutionary process involves the formation of new species?

Mutation
Gene flow
Speciation
Genetic drift
#11

Which molecular clock is widely used to estimate the time of divergence between species?

rRNA clock
DNA barcoding
Mitochondrial DNA clock
Telomere clock
#12

What does the Hardy-Weinberg principle describe?

The rate of evolution
The equilibrium of allele frequencies in a population
The mode of natural selection
The process of genetic drift
#13

What is the term for the process by which a new species evolves from a single ancestral species while inhabiting the same geographic region?

Allopatric speciation
Sympatric speciation
Parapatric speciation
Peripatric speciation
#14

Which of the following is a type of non-coding RNA involved in gene regulation?

Messenger RNA (mRNA)
Transfer RNA (tRNA)
Ribosomal RNA (rRNA)
MicroRNA (miRNA)
#15

Which scientist proposed the 'neutral theory of molecular evolution', suggesting that most evolutionary changes at the molecular level are driven by random genetic drift?

Richard Dawkins
Ernst Mayr
Masatoshi Nei
Motoo Kimura

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