Rutgers General Bio 115 Final Study
Guide Questions Answered Correctly
Graded A+.
associative learning - Answer ability to associate one environmental feature to another
adaptations - Answer inherited characteristics of organisms that enhance their survival and
reproduction in specific environments
artificial selection - Answer selecting and breeding individuals that possess desirable traits
analogous - Answer features share similar function, but not common ancestry
analogy - Answer similarity between organisms due to convergent evolution
bottleneck effect - Answer a severe drop in population size (caused by natural disaster)
biogeography - Answer the study of geographic distributions of species
basal taxon - Answer refers to a lineage that diverges early in the history of a group
communication - Answer transmission and reception of signals
cognitive map - Answer representation of an animal's nervous system of the spatial
relationship between objects and their surroundings
cognition - Answer process of knowing that involves awareness, reasoning, recollection, and
judgement
carry capacity - Answer max population size that a particular environment can sustain
community - Answer group of populations of different species living close enough to interact
convergent evolution - Answer independent evolution of similar features in different
lineages
, clades - Answer groups consisting of ancestral species and all its descendants
cladistics - Answer common ancestry is the primary criterion used to classify organisms
density - Answer the number of individuals per unit area or volume
density independent - Answer birth rate or death rate that does not change with population
density
density dependent - Answer death rate that increases with population density or a birth rate
that decreases with rising density
disruptive selection - Answer when conditions favor individuals at both extremes of a
phenotypic range over individuals with intermediate phenotypes
directional selection - Answer when conditions favor individuals exhibiting one extreme of a
phenotypic range, thereby shifting a population's frequency curve for the phenotypic character
in one direction of the other
emigration - Answer the movement of individuals out of a population and into other
locations
evolutionary tree - Answer a diagram that reflects evolutionary relationships among groups
of organisms
evolution - Answer descent with modification
ecological species concept - Answer defines a species in terms of its ecological niche
foraging - Answer food obtaining behavior
fixed action pattern - Answer a sequence of unlearned acts directly lined to a simple stimulus
fossils - Answer remains or traces of organisms from the past
founder effect - Answer when a few individuals become isolated from a larger population
whose gene pool differs from the source of the population.
Guide Questions Answered Correctly
Graded A+.
associative learning - Answer ability to associate one environmental feature to another
adaptations - Answer inherited characteristics of organisms that enhance their survival and
reproduction in specific environments
artificial selection - Answer selecting and breeding individuals that possess desirable traits
analogous - Answer features share similar function, but not common ancestry
analogy - Answer similarity between organisms due to convergent evolution
bottleneck effect - Answer a severe drop in population size (caused by natural disaster)
biogeography - Answer the study of geographic distributions of species
basal taxon - Answer refers to a lineage that diverges early in the history of a group
communication - Answer transmission and reception of signals
cognitive map - Answer representation of an animal's nervous system of the spatial
relationship between objects and their surroundings
cognition - Answer process of knowing that involves awareness, reasoning, recollection, and
judgement
carry capacity - Answer max population size that a particular environment can sustain
community - Answer group of populations of different species living close enough to interact
convergent evolution - Answer independent evolution of similar features in different
lineages
, clades - Answer groups consisting of ancestral species and all its descendants
cladistics - Answer common ancestry is the primary criterion used to classify organisms
density - Answer the number of individuals per unit area or volume
density independent - Answer birth rate or death rate that does not change with population
density
density dependent - Answer death rate that increases with population density or a birth rate
that decreases with rising density
disruptive selection - Answer when conditions favor individuals at both extremes of a
phenotypic range over individuals with intermediate phenotypes
directional selection - Answer when conditions favor individuals exhibiting one extreme of a
phenotypic range, thereby shifting a population's frequency curve for the phenotypic character
in one direction of the other
emigration - Answer the movement of individuals out of a population and into other
locations
evolutionary tree - Answer a diagram that reflects evolutionary relationships among groups
of organisms
evolution - Answer descent with modification
ecological species concept - Answer defines a species in terms of its ecological niche
foraging - Answer food obtaining behavior
fixed action pattern - Answer a sequence of unlearned acts directly lined to a simple stimulus
fossils - Answer remains or traces of organisms from the past
founder effect - Answer when a few individuals become isolated from a larger population
whose gene pool differs from the source of the population.
