POB CERTIFICATION EVALUATION
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS FULL
SOLUTION VERIFIED SUCCESS
●● population thinking
Answer: the beans are the real thing and the average is an abstraction
●● The Voyage of the Beagle
Answer: Darwin observed and collected plants and animals throughout
the Southern Hemisphere, also studied geology
●● Uniformitarianism
Answer: the processes we observe happening around us today are the
same processes that can explain the history of life and the Earth
an attempt to explain former changes of the Earth's surface by reference
to causes now in operation
●● In his book The Origin of Species, Darwin discovered that
Answer: organisms are related by descent from common ancestors
(evolution occured)
Natural selection provides an explanation for organismal diversity
(natural selection is a mechanism)
, ●● Artificial selection
Answer: the selective breeding of domesticated plants and animals to
encourage the occurrence of desirable traits
breeders can easily generate new phenotypes by choosing which
individual contributes to the next generation
●● Homology
Answer: species share similarities in a pattern that reflects descent with
modification from a common ancestor
●● Homologous structures
Answer: structures in different species that are similar because of
common ancestry
●● Taxonomy
Answer: the nested hierarchy of taxonomic classification corresponds to
a treelike pattern of similarity among species
●● Evolutionary tree
Answer: a branching diagram that reflects a hypothesis about
evolutionary relationships among groups of organisms; summaries our
current understanding of patterns of descent and evolutionary history
●● Convergence
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS FULL
SOLUTION VERIFIED SUCCESS
●● population thinking
Answer: the beans are the real thing and the average is an abstraction
●● The Voyage of the Beagle
Answer: Darwin observed and collected plants and animals throughout
the Southern Hemisphere, also studied geology
●● Uniformitarianism
Answer: the processes we observe happening around us today are the
same processes that can explain the history of life and the Earth
an attempt to explain former changes of the Earth's surface by reference
to causes now in operation
●● In his book The Origin of Species, Darwin discovered that
Answer: organisms are related by descent from common ancestors
(evolution occured)
Natural selection provides an explanation for organismal diversity
(natural selection is a mechanism)
, ●● Artificial selection
Answer: the selective breeding of domesticated plants and animals to
encourage the occurrence of desirable traits
breeders can easily generate new phenotypes by choosing which
individual contributes to the next generation
●● Homology
Answer: species share similarities in a pattern that reflects descent with
modification from a common ancestor
●● Homologous structures
Answer: structures in different species that are similar because of
common ancestry
●● Taxonomy
Answer: the nested hierarchy of taxonomic classification corresponds to
a treelike pattern of similarity among species
●● Evolutionary tree
Answer: a branching diagram that reflects a hypothesis about
evolutionary relationships among groups of organisms; summaries our
current understanding of patterns of descent and evolutionary history
●● Convergence
