The three basic life history traits do no not include:

Which of the following would be an example of a population that can show the potential for rapid speciation?

An allele that reduces the fitness of organisms is found to decrease very rapidly in a population. Most likely this allele is:
1. recently mutated
2. rare
3. dominant
4. recessive

The most likely reason for the development of resistance against pesticides in insects damaging a crop is   
1. Genetic recombination
2. directed mutations
3. Acquired heritable changes.
4. Random mutations 

Random genetic drift in a population probably results from  
1. highly genetically variable individuals. 
2. inbreeding within this population
3. constant low mutation rate
4. large population size 

U²³⁸, the radioactive isotope of uranium, is very useful in absolute dating of rocks. It’s half life is about:
1. 4500 years
2. 4.5 million years
3. 45 million years
4. 4.6 billion years

If a random mating population is in equilibrium, which of the following brings about a change in gene frequency in a non-directional manner? 
1. Mutations
2. Random drift
3. Selection
4. Migration 

Species formation without branching of the evolutionary line of descent is called as:
1. anagenesis, or phyletic evolution
2. cladogenesis, or divergent evolution
3. convergent evolution
4. allopatry

In the famous experiment by Louis Pasteur, the straight and long-necked flasks served :
1. as the experimental setup
2. as a control
3. as a cohort
4. no useful purpose