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This BIO 250 Exam 1 study guide supports preparation for a university-level biology assessment at Brigham Young University (BYU). Depending on the course syllabus, it may cover foundational biological principles, cellular processes, genetics, organismal biology, or other topics taught before the first exam. Review questions and topic summaries can help reinforce understanding and improve exam readiness.

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Bio 250 Exam 1 (Adams BYU)


Question 1.
Evolution is the unifying concept of biology

ANSWER
Dobzhansky



Question 2.
Ophelia Syndrome

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



Question 10.
Uniformitarianism

ANSWER
geologic processes have not changed throughout Earth's history.



Question 11.
Lyell's Principles of Succession

ANSWER
1. Superposition: bottom layers older than top layers
2. cross cutting structure is younger than layer it crosses
3. structure included is older than structure holding it
4. Original horizontality
5. Uniformitarianism



Question 12.
Wallace's Line

ANSWER
a faunal boundary line drawn in 1859 by the British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace that separates the ecozones of Asia and Wallacea, a transitional zone
between Asia and Australia.



Question 13.
Richard Owen

ANSWER
Structural homology

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