BIO 250 EXAM 1 (ADAMS BYU)
UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT
ANSWERS
Question 1.
Evolution is the unifying concept of biology
ANSWER
Dobzhansky
Question 2.
Ophelia Syn- drome
ANSWER
Being told what to do or how to think; Thomas Plummer
Question 3.
What are the six cures to Ophelia Syndrome?
ANSWER
1. Seek out great teachers
2. Dare to know and trust yourself
3. Learn to live with uncertainty (Science exists because of what we don't know)
4. Practice dialectical thinking; Put yourself in their shoes
5. Foster idle thinking (Alfred Russel Wallace codiscovered natural selection while sick in a bed
in Malay)
6. Plan to step out of bounds (Question presumed bounds of thinking, reading, writing, or
learning)
Question 4.
Theory of Evolution
ANSWER
the idea that all species are related and gradually change over time
, Question 5.
What are the 7 evidences for Evolution?
ANSWER
1. Nested hierarchical structure of life (Gave rise to binomial nomenclature) 2.Evidence for
extinction
3. Succession of fossil types
4. Geographical relationships of similar species (Sarawak law) - Similar species come from
similar places
5. Shared embryonic features (Haeckel)
6. Common design blueprints for structures with different function (homologous structures)
7. Vestigial organs -- appendix (loss of function, not loss of structure) & Atavisms -- tail
(ancestral trait reappears)
Question 6.
binomial nomenclature
ANSWER
Carolus Linnaeus classification based on shared similarities
Question 7.
Thomas Molyneux
ANSWER
First to describe extinct irish elk
Question 8.
Cuvier
ANSWER
list of 23 extinct species in 1801
Question 9.
Charles Lyell
ANSWER
proponent of uniformitarianism
UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT
ANSWERS
Question 1.
Evolution is the unifying concept of biology
ANSWER
Dobzhansky
Question 2.
Ophelia Syn- drome
ANSWER
Being told what to do or how to think; Thomas Plummer
Question 3.
What are the six cures to Ophelia Syndrome?
ANSWER
1. Seek out great teachers
2. Dare to know and trust yourself
3. Learn to live with uncertainty (Science exists because of what we don't know)
4. Practice dialectical thinking; Put yourself in their shoes
5. Foster idle thinking (Alfred Russel Wallace codiscovered natural selection while sick in a bed
in Malay)
6. Plan to step out of bounds (Question presumed bounds of thinking, reading, writing, or
learning)
Question 4.
Theory of Evolution
ANSWER
the idea that all species are related and gradually change over time
, Question 5.
What are the 7 evidences for Evolution?
ANSWER
1. Nested hierarchical structure of life (Gave rise to binomial nomenclature) 2.Evidence for
extinction
3. Succession of fossil types
4. Geographical relationships of similar species (Sarawak law) - Similar species come from
similar places
5. Shared embryonic features (Haeckel)
6. Common design blueprints for structures with different function (homologous structures)
7. Vestigial organs -- appendix (loss of function, not loss of structure) & Atavisms -- tail
(ancestral trait reappears)
Question 6.
binomial nomenclature
ANSWER
Carolus Linnaeus classification based on shared similarities
Question 7.
Thomas Molyneux
ANSWER
First to describe extinct irish elk
Question 8.
Cuvier
ANSWER
list of 23 extinct species in 1801
Question 9.
Charles Lyell
ANSWER
proponent of uniformitarianism
