E-class Quiz questions Flashcards
Most estimates of the total number of living eukaryotic species on Earth are:
between 5 million and 500 million
Inclusion of an ‘if…then’
type of statement is common in which type of scientific method?
hypothetico-deductive
Which of the following is
a correct way to format the scientific name of
the European red deer?
C. elaphus
A Swedish botanist named a genus of mosses Sphagnum in 1793. A German
botanist named a genus of ferns Sphagnum in
1795. In this case, the ____ has the senior _____.
moss, homonym
One of these is the family to
which the water mite genus Neumania belongs
– which is it?
Unionicolidae
The scientific name of the Blackcapped Chickadee is Poecile atricapillus (Linnaeus).
What do the parentheses around ‘Linnaeus’ mean?
it was originally in a different genus
What important thing happened to
Charles Darwin with regard to the idea of evolution
by natural selection in 1858?
Alfred Russel Wallace came up with the same idea
What is the purpose of a
‘common-garden’ experiment?
to test whether phenotypic variation within a species
has a heritable component
The synthesis of organic compounds (e.g., amino acids) from
inorganic molecules could have occurred early on in earth’s history
under several different conditions, EXCEPT:
in high oxygen environments
The paleocontinent Gondwana eventually
broke into what are now these land masses:
Africa, Australia, Antarctica and ________
South America
These two species of skunk live in
the same area but don’t hybridize.
A pre-zygotic barrier explaining
this could be:
one mates in early fall and
one in late winter
Evidence of the first occurrence of
photosynthesis in the fossil/geological record
includes:
banded-iron rock formations
These are respectively, a synapomorphy of charophyte algae + members pf kingdom Plantae, and a synapomorphy of members of plantae.
Rosette-shaped cellulose synthesizing complex ; alteration of generations
