Bio 400 Exam Questions and
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The so-called Modern Synthesis was constructed by _____ in the approximate
______ period.
A. Theodosius Dobzhansky...1910-1920
B. Ernst Mayr...1950-1970
C. RA Fisher...1940-1960
D. Several people...1925-1945
E. Several people...1910-1915 - CORRECT ANSWER-D
Which statement about the idea of evolution by natural selection is most correct?
A. Its genetic basis was not understood until the 1890s
B. It was considered a plausible idea when Darwin proposed it, but was not
accepted fully in biology until the 1940s
C. Darwin stole the idea without attribution from Patrick Matthews
D. The idea was first suggested to Darwin by Alfred Russel Wallace
,E. Darwin had been playing with the idea since he was a medical student in
Edinburgh - CORRECT ANSWER-B
Erasmus Darwin regarded vestigial structures in organisms as:
A. Puzzles posed to us by God
B. Evidence of divine creation
C. Having obscure functions we have not yet discerned
D. Proto-structures that later in evolutionary history would assume as valuable
biological function
E. Evidence of evolutionary descent - CORRECT ANSWER-E
The Upas tree of legend
A. Is based on a real tree in Germany
B. Is based on an imaginary tree mentioned in the Bible
C. Confounds the Tree of Knowledge in the Garden of Eden with a rare flowering
plant discovered by John Mandeville during his travels
D. Is based on a real tree that makes a toxic sap
E. Is a botanical version of the sphinx legend - CORRECT ANSWER-D
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,Which of the following was *not* a contribution of the lab of Thomas Hunt
Morgan to the study of genetics?
A. The use of mutations in identifying genes
B. The discovery of hybridization and segregation in plants
C. Genetics maps
D. Evidence that genetic information is 1-dimensional
E. Sex-linked traits - CORRECT ANSWER-B
The Pacific islands where Darwin saw most clearly the evidences of evolutionary
relationship ______ - CORRECT ANSWER-Galapagos
Models which propose evolutionary changes in large jumps ______ - CORRECT
ANSWER-Saltationist
Gregor Mendel's day job ______ - CORRECT ANSWER-Monk
The insect that was the focus of work in Morgan's lab _____ - CORRECT
ANSWER-Fruit fly
The Piltdown fossils were accepted as genuine & significant among many British
scientists partly because
A. Charles Darwin was a respected human paleontologist at the University of
Oxford
B. King George V gave his own personal endorsement of the reality of the finds
, C. The fossils confirmed the "brain-led" hypothesis of human evolution which was
popular in Britain at the time
D. They suggested that early British people had a distinctly larger brain case than
people from France, where only Cro-Magnon remains had been found
E. Darwin, in the 19th century, had guessed that our species evolved in England -
CORRECT ANSWER-C
Which book about science did Darwin value most when he was a student at
Cambridge?
A. Species Plantarum, by Linneaus
B. Natural History, by Buffon
C. Natural Theology, by Paley
D. Natural History, by Pliny
E. Principles of Geology, by Charles Lyell - CORRECT ANSWER-C
Of the people on this list, who was most aware of Darwin's evolutionary thinking
at an early stage?
A. His grandfather
B. Asa Gray
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The so-called Modern Synthesis was constructed by _____ in the approximate
______ period.
A. Theodosius Dobzhansky...1910-1920
B. Ernst Mayr...1950-1970
C. RA Fisher...1940-1960
D. Several people...1925-1945
E. Several people...1910-1915 - CORRECT ANSWER-D
Which statement about the idea of evolution by natural selection is most correct?
A. Its genetic basis was not understood until the 1890s
B. It was considered a plausible idea when Darwin proposed it, but was not
accepted fully in biology until the 1940s
C. Darwin stole the idea without attribution from Patrick Matthews
D. The idea was first suggested to Darwin by Alfred Russel Wallace
,E. Darwin had been playing with the idea since he was a medical student in
Edinburgh - CORRECT ANSWER-B
Erasmus Darwin regarded vestigial structures in organisms as:
A. Puzzles posed to us by God
B. Evidence of divine creation
C. Having obscure functions we have not yet discerned
D. Proto-structures that later in evolutionary history would assume as valuable
biological function
E. Evidence of evolutionary descent - CORRECT ANSWER-E
The Upas tree of legend
A. Is based on a real tree in Germany
B. Is based on an imaginary tree mentioned in the Bible
C. Confounds the Tree of Knowledge in the Garden of Eden with a rare flowering
plant discovered by John Mandeville during his travels
D. Is based on a real tree that makes a toxic sap
E. Is a botanical version of the sphinx legend - CORRECT ANSWER-D
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,Which of the following was *not* a contribution of the lab of Thomas Hunt
Morgan to the study of genetics?
A. The use of mutations in identifying genes
B. The discovery of hybridization and segregation in plants
C. Genetics maps
D. Evidence that genetic information is 1-dimensional
E. Sex-linked traits - CORRECT ANSWER-B
The Pacific islands where Darwin saw most clearly the evidences of evolutionary
relationship ______ - CORRECT ANSWER-Galapagos
Models which propose evolutionary changes in large jumps ______ - CORRECT
ANSWER-Saltationist
Gregor Mendel's day job ______ - CORRECT ANSWER-Monk
The insect that was the focus of work in Morgan's lab _____ - CORRECT
ANSWER-Fruit fly
The Piltdown fossils were accepted as genuine & significant among many British
scientists partly because
A. Charles Darwin was a respected human paleontologist at the University of
Oxford
B. King George V gave his own personal endorsement of the reality of the finds
, C. The fossils confirmed the "brain-led" hypothesis of human evolution which was
popular in Britain at the time
D. They suggested that early British people had a distinctly larger brain case than
people from France, where only Cro-Magnon remains had been found
E. Darwin, in the 19th century, had guessed that our species evolved in England -
CORRECT ANSWER-C
Which book about science did Darwin value most when he was a student at
Cambridge?
A. Species Plantarum, by Linneaus
B. Natural History, by Buffon
C. Natural Theology, by Paley
D. Natural History, by Pliny
E. Principles of Geology, by Charles Lyell - CORRECT ANSWER-C
Of the people on this list, who was most aware of Darwin's evolutionary thinking
at an early stage?
A. His grandfather
B. Asa Gray
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