Quiz #1 Lessons1-7

Question 1

Linnaeus

Answer 1

Taxonomy falsification

Question 2

Aristotle

Answer 2

Species immutable; scala nature

Question 3

Darwin

Answer 3

Natural Selection

Question 4

Malthus

Answer 4

Limits of population growth

Question 5

Lamarck

Answer 5

inheritance of acquired characteristics

Question 6

On the island of Daphne, major periods of drought drive the evolution ok beaks in?

Answer 6

Larger

Question 7

The basic unit of evolution

Answer 7

Population

Question 8

Genetic drift

Answer 8

Random process

Question 9

The key distinguished feature of a goof scientific theory

Answer 9

• Falsifiability

Question 10

A crucial component of evolutionary theory missing from Darwin’s original formulation in the 19th century?

Answer 10

Mendelian genetics

Question 11

consider skull size in human newborns- natural selections favor- phenotype in the population example of?

Answer 11

• Intermediate; stabilizing selection

Question 12

Which statement best describes how fitness is measured by an evolutionary biologist? Fitness is measured by?

Answer 12

• Reproductive output of an individual in a population

Question 13

Bones that support the wings of birds and bats are?

Answer 13

• homologous traits

Question 14

The development of a hindlimb in 24-day dolphin embryo is best explained by?

Answer 14

• Adaptation environment

Question 15

Darwin’s original contribution to biology?

Answer 15

none of the above

Question 16

Which of the following is NOT a requirement for the evolution of A trait by natural selection?

Answer 16

Traits must make individuals stronger

Question 17

Not consider atavism

Answer 17

• feathers on archaeopteryx

Question 18

Basic unit of natural selection?

Answer 18

individuals

Question 19

Fur color in a population of rat rangers from white to gray to black. Gray rats have a higher chance of surviving to reproductive age

Answer 19

• stabilizing selection

Question 20

According to Cuvier the pattern of change in the fossil record suggested that

Question 21

Wings of bats and wings of insects are- traits that are the products of- evolution

Answer 21

Analogous converted

Question 22

Inferred by the chart on the right

Answer 22

• beak depth is variable and transmutable to the next generation

Question 23

• The ultimate source of heritable variation in a population is

Answer 23

• mutation

Question 24

The main driver of evolution after a severe bottleneck event?

Answer 24

genetic drift

Question 25

Organisms with higher fitness in an animal that lives?

Answer 25

10 years and produces 100 offsprings

Question 26

Darwin’s theory was threatened by the dominant 19th-century theory of- suggested that should increase over time

Answer 26

blending inheritance

Question 27

A population that contains genetically and phenotypically identical organisms will experience

Answer 27

neither- evolution or natural selection

Question 28

Consider a population that is not hardy-Weinberg equilibrium- in this population, we can determine- frequencies by measuring- frequencies-

Answer 28

Allele; genotype

Question 29

Frequency of the A allele

Answer 29

0.50

Question 30

frequency of the Aa genotype

Answer 30

0.50

Question 31

What is the expected frequency of the Aa genotype under hardy Weinberg equilibrium

Answer 31

0.50

Question 32

Consider a cross between heterozygous individuals and a homozygous recessive individual- out of 60 offspring the expected number of homozygous recessive is-

Answer 32

30

Question 33

Artificial selection can sometimes result in the evolution of deleterious(maladaptive) traits

Answer 33

true

Question 34

Archeopteryx is a transitional form between fish and amphibians

Answer 34

false

Question 35

Darwin published “the origin of species” in the 1849

Answer 35

false

Question 36

Natural selection=Evolution

Answer 36

false

Question 37

natural selection-survival of the fittest

Answer 37

false

Question 38

All genetic mutations are neutral with respect to natural selection

Answer 38

false

Question 39

Structures that have no apparent function today but had a function in ancestral species are vestigial structures

Answer 39

true

Question 40

Out of the three modes of selection that we learned about in class, stabilizing selection is the most likely mode of selection to drive speciation (the evolution of two species form one species)

Answer 40

false