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38 Cards in this Set
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Which of the following statements regarding the origin of life is false?
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The first gene were made of DNA, not RNA
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The work of_____finally convinced the scientific world that life did not arise through spontaneous generation?
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Louis Pasteur
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Humans are ?
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Heterotrophs
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The endosymbiotic theory suggested that the following Eukaryotic structures were derived from Prokaryote living insides early Eukaryote?
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The mitochondria and chrol....
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Which scientist play an important role in the history biological?
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Jean Baptiste
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Which scientist lead Darwin to his great idea about the cause of evolutionary?
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Thomas Malthus
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The number of arms humans have is?
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Heritable but not variable
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Natural selection may favor the traits that help organism?
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All of the above
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When a donkey mates with a horse a mule is produce but the mule are sterile because?
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A post-zygotic reproductive barrier
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The formation of the Isthmus of Panama Canal?
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Allopatric speciation
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The evolution of a large number of species, each adapted to a distinct way of life is known as?
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an adaptive radiation
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In their theory of punctuated equilibrium, S.J. Gould and IV. Eldredge argue that?
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All of the above
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Which of the features bellow was the first to appear in hominids?
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An upright posture
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Which statement regarding human evolution and our hominid relatives is false?
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Homo sapiens neaderhalis is close relative of modern human but had a MUCH smaller brain.
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Two species of frogs do not interbreed because one species breed in March and the other in May, this is an example of?
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prezygotic reproduction barrier
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If we compare closely related rabbits species in the tropical and arctic environment, we would expect that the tropical species to be ____ in size and to have ____ legs.
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Smaller,shorter
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All the following traits of polar bears help them retain heat in a cold environment except?
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A high surface area to volume ratio
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A population of bats evolves because organism from a separate bat population move into the population this mechanism of evolution is known is?
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Migration
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A population of beetles in which some individuals are blue and some individuals are green involves by CHANCE?
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Genetic drift
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A population of beetles in which some individuals are blue and some individuals are green evolves because the ENVIRONMENT?
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Natural selection
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The cynobacteria were?
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Responsible for introducing oxygen into Mars
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All of the following traits are variable in humans except?
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Number of fingers
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All the following traits are heritable in humans except?
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Hair length
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If natural selection favors the average of body size in a population of mites, you expect to see?
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Stabilizing selection
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Two species of insects do not interbreed because their sexual organs will not fit together?
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Prezygotic reproductive barrier
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Each of the following are adaptation related to acquiring mates except?
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The erratic flight of the painted lady butterfly
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If the females of a species of songbird prefer to with more brightly colored males, and you known this trait heritable, you will expect?
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both A&B
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Which of the following statements about peppered moths is false?
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After the passage of pollution control laws, dark moths became more common than light moths in Urban areas.
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An example of artificial selection is the?
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Breeding of corn from teosinte
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Which of the statements regarding biogeography is false?
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Islands tend to be occupied by many land animals
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The primary problem with the hypothesis that life on earth originated on mar is?
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The proposed martian fossils are much smaller than the tiniest bacteria on earth
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Photosynthesizing plant are?
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autotrophs
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Which of the following scientist did not play in the development of Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection?
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Gould
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If we compare related bear species in tropical and arctic environment, we should expect?
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The tropical species to have larger ears
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If natural selection favors a body size smaller than the population average within a group of squirrels, you expect to see?
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Directional selection
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Which of the following mechanism of evolution most effectively causes population to become more adapted to their environment?
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Natural Selection
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When a lion mates with a tiger, the offsprings (ligers) are sterile?
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Postzygotic reproductive barrier
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Which of the following provide evidence for evolution?
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All of the above
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