EEOB 3310 – Final Exam With Correct Answers

EEOB 3310 – Final Exam With
Correct Answers.




Darwin's interest in pigeon breeding was important because: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔it convinced him of
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the power of selection as a force to change a species phenotype
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What did Hopi Hoestra's lab demonstrate with their work on Peromyscus mice? Choose the BEST answer. -
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CORRECT ANSWER✔✔That selection pressure from predators who hunt visually caused differences in
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allele frequency at several loci. One SNP locus can account for 36% of the variation in coat color
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The Reverend Thomas Malthus was extremely important to the development of the theory of evolution by
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means of natural selection. What was his greatest contribution to the development of this theory? -
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CORRECT ANSWER✔✔His essay on the Principles of Population was influential to both Darwin and Wallace
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Identify the word that matches this definition: empirical evidence interpreted through logic - based on
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premise that our senses, and extensions of our senses through the use of instruments, provides accurate
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information about the physical universe. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔methodological naturalism
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, According to Charles Lyell, what was the approximate age of the Earth? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Hundreds
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of thousands of years, or much older than implied by the timeline presented in Genesis
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Prior to Darwin's work, species were believed to be: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔both "unchanging entities
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with an inner form (eidos)" and "specialy created by god in a perfect form"
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Darwin realized that the often exquisite fit of species to their environment is primarily the result of: -
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CORRECT ANSWER✔✔natural selection
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During the voyage of the Beagle, Darwin visited both the Cape de Verde islands and the Galapagos islands.
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Why were these visits so important to the development of his theory of evolution? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔
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the islands had nearly identical habitat and climate, but the species on each island resembled those on the
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nearby continents, rather than each other. this provided evidence against special creation
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Based on our current understanding of natural populations, what is the best way to describe intraspecific
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genetic variation. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Most species are heterozygous at between 5% and 30% of the
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loci in their genomes
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Within population variation is essential to the theory of evolution by means of natural selection because: -
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CORRECT ANSWER✔✔this variation provides selection with something to act upon
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In the Peromyscus mouse system investigated by the Hoestra lab, what is the selective agent? - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔owls (i.e., the visual predators)
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What is the Modern Synthesis? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔an attempt by a group of biologists and
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mathematicians to synthesize the theory of natural selection with Mendelian genetics
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