Exam University of Texas in Arlington
UTA Questions And Answers.
Population - Answer What is the unit of Evolution?
Individuals - Answer What is typically, but not always, the unit of selection?
Phenotype - Answer Genotype Environmental Influence=?
Neutral - Answer Are most mutations harmful, neutral or positive?
Harmful - Answer Chromosomal mutations that delete, disrupt, or rearrange many loci are
harmful, neutral or positive?
Duplicated Genes - Answer What kind of genes can take on a new function by mutating
further?
James Hutton - Answer Who developed Gradulaism? (What we see is the result of a gradual
change on Earth)
Thomas Mathus - Answer Who wrote an essay on Principle of Population (Resources
acquisition does not go up)?
Jean Baptist Lamarck - Answer Who developed up with Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics
(Totally Incorrect)
George Cuvier - Answer Who developed Catastrophism (Evolution happens as a result of a
catastrophe)?
Charles Lyell - Answer Who developed Uniformitarianism on the Principles of Geology?
Phylogeny - Answer What is a Tree of Life called?