Biology 189 Final Exam Practice

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Question 1

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The theory of natural selection states that:
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  • individuals that live the longest are best adapted and selected for survival in the next generation.
  • individuals that mutate in response to their environment will survive at the expense of those individuals who are genetically stable
  • only the largest and strongest individuals survive
  • the best-adapted individuals survive and reproduce, contributing the most genes to the next generation.

Question 2

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A population of deer was threatened with overpopulation until cheetahs were imported. After a couple of years, there were fewer deer, but the average running speed of the deer had increased. This is an example of:
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  • natural selection.
  • mutation
  • inheritance of acquired characteristics
  • genetic drift.

Question 3

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What mechanism did Charles Darwin discover as the driving force behind evolution?
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  • the inheritance of acquired characteristics
  • common descent with modification
  • natural selection
  • artificial selection

Question 4

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Who believed the species on Earth changed over time as a result of periodic great catastrophes?
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  • Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck
  • Georges Cuvier
  • Alfred Russel Wallace
  • Charles Lyell

Question 5

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The long neck of a giraffe has developed over a long period of time because giraffes have needed to stretch their necks to reach food high in trees, and that quality has been passed on through the generations. This view of evolution would correspond with the ideas of:
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  • Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck.
  • Charles Lyell.
  • Georges Cuvier.
  • Alfred Russel Wallace.

Question 6

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Many commercial pesticides become less effective after two to three years because:
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  • pests with resistant genes will survive and reproduce.
  • new pests invade the area
  • pests without resistant genes will ignore any plant coated with pesticide
  • the chemicals mutate.

Question 7

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A population is:
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  • a group of organisms that can successfully interbreed in nature but do not interbreed with other such groups
  • all the members of a species that live in a defined geographic region at the same time.
  • all the different species that live in a defined geographic area at the same time.
  • a group of different species that share common features.

Question 8

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The gene pool for a particular gene would include:
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  • the sum of all the alleles for all the traits in the population.
  • all the alleles for a given trait in a particular individual organism of the population.
  • the sum of all the phenotypes in the population.
  • all the alleles for a particular gene in all the individuals in the population.

Question 9

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What is the difference between microevolution and macroevolution?
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  • Microevolution is hypothetical because changes are too small to be observed, whereas macroevolution is detectable
  • Microevolution deals with microscopic organisms, whereas macroevolution deals with larger ones.
  • Microevolution describes what happens in small populations, whereas macroevolution deals with large populations
  • Microevolution describes changes within a population over a short period of time, whereas macroevolution describes larger changes such as the formation of new species over longer periods of time.

Question 10

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As world travel becomes easier and human populations intermix, the occurrence of what phenomenon will probably decrease?
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  • mutation
  • sexual selection
  • immigration
  • founder effect and genetic drift

Question 11

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Shrews have been documented to travel across frozen lakes and establish populations on previously uninhabited islands; thus, the shrews have a limited gene pool. If this limited gene pool has allele frequencies that are very different from the allele frequencies found in the original population, then this would be an example of:
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  • natural selection
  • population bottleneck
  • divergent evolution
  • founder effect

Question 12

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Imagine a population of monkeys in South America whose habitat has been reduced to the point where only 25 monkeys survive. This is an example of:
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  • population bottleneck
  • founder effect
  • genetic drift
  • natural selection

Question 13

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How successful an individual is at passing on its genes to the next generation is known as:
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  • microevolution
  • adaptation
  • fitness
  • sexual selection

Question 14

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The biological species concept cannot be applied to bacteria because:
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  • their DNA is too similar.
  • their features are too small to be able to distinguish one kind from another.
  • they do not reproduce sexually
  • they never exchange genes that would allow for speciation.

Question 15

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Which of these definitions of species most closely fits the biological species concept?
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  • For asexually reproducing organisms, members of the same species are based on DNA and RNA base sequence analysis.
  • Members of the same species look almost exactly alike.
  • Members of the same species are all morphologically similar
  • Members of the same species can mate and produce fertile offspring.

Question 16

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A population of mountain-dwelling salamanders migrates and splits into two populations separated by a valley they can not cross. The speciation process that may occur is:
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  • allopatric
  • temporal
  • behavioral
  • sympatric

Question 17

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A population becomes isolated from other populations of the same species, and then genetic divergence occurs that prevents them from breeding with other populations. What has happened?
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  • speciation
  • formation of genetic drifts
  • directional selection
  • mechanical incompatibility

Question 18

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The many species of tree frogs that inhabit forests in the eastern United States maintain their genetic isolation from other species by several mechanisms, including "singing" slightly different songs. Which type of isolating mechanism does this represent?
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  • temporal isolation
  • behavioral isolation
  • ecological isolation
  • mechanical isolation

Question 19

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Pollen of one plant species will not germinate on the flower of another species. This is an example of:
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  • temporal isolation.
  • hybrid inviability
  • hybrid infertility.
  • gametic isolation

Question 20

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When a species invades a new habitat and evolves rapidly into several new species, what has occurred?
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  • divergent speciation
  • polyploidy
  • adaptive radiation
  • phyletic speciation

Question 21

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In an organism's binomial scientific name, the first of the two names is the
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  • species
  • family
  • order
  • genus

Question 22

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Analogous features in different organisms have nothing to do with common descent. These are produced by:
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  • convergent evolution.
  • divergent evolution.
  • reproductive isolation.
  • adaptive radiation.

Question 23

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You discover a single-celled organism that does not have a nucleus, and you also notice that the culture is producing methane. In which group would you place this organism?
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  • Domain Bacteria
  • Domain Archaea
  • Domain Eukarya
  • Kingdom Protista

Question 24

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The evolution of land organisms was not possible until enough ________ had been made by the early forms of aquatic life.
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  • oxygen gas
  • carbon dioxide
  • ammonia
  • organic food

Question 25

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Which aquatic vertebrates are thought to be the ancestors of the amphibians?
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  • skates and rays
  • tadpoles
  • lobe-finned fish
  • sharks

Question 26

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Primates first appear in the fossil record in the:
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  • Mesozoic era.
  • Cambrian period.
  • Paleozoic era
  • Cenozoic era.

Question 27

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The amniotic egg first appeared in which group of animals?
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  • amphibians
  • reptiles
  • birds
  • mammals
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