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Quiz in Science 10
Identification
Directions: Give what is being asked. Write your answer on the space provided before the number.
__________________1. It is a branch of science that deals with the naming and classifying animals.
__________________2. It refers to the tempo of speciation where the changes in organisms come in spurts.
__________________3. It refers to the tempo of speciation where the changes is slow and there is a gradual
accumulation of changes over time.
__________________4. It is an evolutionary process in which new organisms arise.
__________________5. It is defined as the difference between cells, individual organism, and/or group of organisms of
any species.
__________________6. It is process of selecting favoured trait over the unflavoured trait of organisms and allowing
these traits to succeed in future generations.
__________________7. It is the scientific name of the corn.
__________________8 and 9. These are the two simplest classifications of organisms which gives an organism its
__________________ “scientific name.”
__________________10. According to the theory of Darwin, it plays the role of filtering the traits that can succeed
among organisms in a single species.

Essay
Directions: Explain the following briefly but substantially.
1. Explain the natural selection.
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2. Differentiate allopatric from sympatric speciation.
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3. Relate evolution to biodiversity.
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Correctness of Content: 3points Correctness of grammar and spelling: 2 points