BSC 385 Test 1 questions well
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Evolution is as much a fact as the fact that planets go around the Sun. - correct answer ✔✔True
Fossils reveal many problems that evolution cannot explain. - correct answer ✔✔False
Ecology and evolution have little bearing on human disease. - correct answer ✔✔False
Evolution is a totally random process, a series of 'accidents.' - correct answer ✔✔False
Evolution involves individuals changing in order to adapt to their environment. - correct answer
✔✔False
Climate change and the greenhouse effect are the same thing. - correct answer ✔✔False
Populations exist in states of either constant growth or decline. - correct answer ✔✔False
There are more species of plants than animals. - correct answer ✔✔False
According to evolution, people 'came from monkeys' a long time ago. - correct answer ✔✔False
Energy accumulates at the top of food chains. - correct answer ✔✔False
, Most major religions in the US have officially declared that they have NO conflict with evolution.
- correct answer ✔✔True
The earth is currently experiencing a warming trend. - correct answer ✔✔True
Climate is simply long-term weather and therefore can't be predicted. - correct answer
✔✔False
We are presently in the midst of a mass extinction. - correct answer ✔✔True
The essence of Dobzhansky's essay, published in 1973, was that.... - correct answer
✔✔Evolutionary theory converts biology as a collection of facts into a system of knowledge
Synapomorphies are... - correct answer ✔✔Derived features in a recent ancestral lineage that
are inherited by all of its descendants
Why would scientists resort to DNA analysis to determine which group of land mammals is
MOST closely related to cetaceans? - correct answer ✔✔Because if DNA data are consistent
with morphological analysis of fossils and extant (currently living) species, confidence in
conclusions is increased
Cetaceans (whales/dolphins) are mammals with fishlike bodies. The MOST likely explanation for
this body form is that... - correct answer ✔✔As cetaceans returned to the water secondarily,
they evolved a streamlined, fishlike body because this body is well-adapted to an aquatic
environment
The prevailing view of scientists regarding influenza outbreaks is that.... - correct answer ✔✔It is
not a question of whether we have another influenza pandemic; it's a matter of when
answered passed
Evolution is as much a fact as the fact that planets go around the Sun. - correct answer ✔✔True
Fossils reveal many problems that evolution cannot explain. - correct answer ✔✔False
Ecology and evolution have little bearing on human disease. - correct answer ✔✔False
Evolution is a totally random process, a series of 'accidents.' - correct answer ✔✔False
Evolution involves individuals changing in order to adapt to their environment. - correct answer
✔✔False
Climate change and the greenhouse effect are the same thing. - correct answer ✔✔False
Populations exist in states of either constant growth or decline. - correct answer ✔✔False
There are more species of plants than animals. - correct answer ✔✔False
According to evolution, people 'came from monkeys' a long time ago. - correct answer ✔✔False
Energy accumulates at the top of food chains. - correct answer ✔✔False
, Most major religions in the US have officially declared that they have NO conflict with evolution.
- correct answer ✔✔True
The earth is currently experiencing a warming trend. - correct answer ✔✔True
Climate is simply long-term weather and therefore can't be predicted. - correct answer
✔✔False
We are presently in the midst of a mass extinction. - correct answer ✔✔True
The essence of Dobzhansky's essay, published in 1973, was that.... - correct answer
✔✔Evolutionary theory converts biology as a collection of facts into a system of knowledge
Synapomorphies are... - correct answer ✔✔Derived features in a recent ancestral lineage that
are inherited by all of its descendants
Why would scientists resort to DNA analysis to determine which group of land mammals is
MOST closely related to cetaceans? - correct answer ✔✔Because if DNA data are consistent
with morphological analysis of fossils and extant (currently living) species, confidence in
conclusions is increased
Cetaceans (whales/dolphins) are mammals with fishlike bodies. The MOST likely explanation for
this body form is that... - correct answer ✔✔As cetaceans returned to the water secondarily,
they evolved a streamlined, fishlike body because this body is well-adapted to an aquatic
environment
The prevailing view of scientists regarding influenza outbreaks is that.... - correct answer ✔✔It is
not a question of whether we have another influenza pandemic; it's a matter of when
