BIO 322: EXAM 1 QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE
SOLUTIONS
Aldo Leopold Correct Answers Game Management, Sand
County Almanac
Although widely used, the species-area approach to predicting
extinctions is likely to overestimate the actual extinction rate,
because Correct Answers the amount of area that must be
destroyed to kill the last individual of a species is almost always
much greater than the amount of area that would have to be
destroyed to encounter the first individual of a species.
anthropocentrism Correct Answers humans are the central
element of the universe; intemperate reality exclusively in terms
of human values and experience
biodiversity is only values based on it's utilitarian value
biocentrism Correct Answers direct moral considerations of
living things;
biological species concept Correct Answers species that can
reproduce and have fertile offsprings
CRISPR Correct Answers Clustered Regularly Interspaced
Short Palindromic Repeats
direct habitat loss Correct Answers land cover change
(deforestation)
, Direct use Value Correct Answers assigned to products
harvested by people; or which can be priced in an open market
ecocentrism Correct Answers direct moral considerations of
biological and ecological wholes rather than individual living
things (ecosystems, biospheres etc. )
Ecological Footprint Correct Answers How much land area is
needed to provide raw materials and dispose of or recycle wastes
of a person or population
Efforts to recover populations of the Red Wolf are controversial
because... Correct Answers the Red wolf may be a result of
hybridization rather than be considered a true species.
endemic Correct Answers a species that is geographically
limited to only one defined area
existence value Correct Answers referred to the ethical feeling
for the existence of nature; amount ppl are willing to pay to
ensure the preservation of certain species
extinction Correct Answers last species has died on a global
scale
extirpation Correct Answers local extinction of a population
gene drive Correct Answers a gene drive that is guaranteed to
pass from one generation to the next and ultimately throughout a
population
SOLUTIONS
Aldo Leopold Correct Answers Game Management, Sand
County Almanac
Although widely used, the species-area approach to predicting
extinctions is likely to overestimate the actual extinction rate,
because Correct Answers the amount of area that must be
destroyed to kill the last individual of a species is almost always
much greater than the amount of area that would have to be
destroyed to encounter the first individual of a species.
anthropocentrism Correct Answers humans are the central
element of the universe; intemperate reality exclusively in terms
of human values and experience
biodiversity is only values based on it's utilitarian value
biocentrism Correct Answers direct moral considerations of
living things;
biological species concept Correct Answers species that can
reproduce and have fertile offsprings
CRISPR Correct Answers Clustered Regularly Interspaced
Short Palindromic Repeats
direct habitat loss Correct Answers land cover change
(deforestation)
, Direct use Value Correct Answers assigned to products
harvested by people; or which can be priced in an open market
ecocentrism Correct Answers direct moral considerations of
biological and ecological wholes rather than individual living
things (ecosystems, biospheres etc. )
Ecological Footprint Correct Answers How much land area is
needed to provide raw materials and dispose of or recycle wastes
of a person or population
Efforts to recover populations of the Red Wolf are controversial
because... Correct Answers the Red wolf may be a result of
hybridization rather than be considered a true species.
endemic Correct Answers a species that is geographically
limited to only one defined area
existence value Correct Answers referred to the ethical feeling
for the existence of nature; amount ppl are willing to pay to
ensure the preservation of certain species
extinction Correct Answers last species has died on a global
scale
extirpation Correct Answers local extinction of a population
gene drive Correct Answers a gene drive that is guaranteed to
pass from one generation to the next and ultimately throughout a
population
