Biology 182 ASU Exam 1| 207 Questions | With Complete Solutions

Key point #1 correct answer: Even the most desperate organisms share some features, suggesting that the single, nine random process generated diversity. True or False #1: biodiversity on earth will likely decrease in the near future. correct answer: True! Fingerprints of human activity, spread of an invasive species, Rapid change and global climate, habitat destruction, Deforestation What are three Worlds Views? correct answer: 1. Natural Evolution - Evolution by natural process 2. Theistic Evolution - Evolution guided by God 3. Creation - Species created by God True or False #2: Human beings, as we know them, developed from earlier species of animals. correct answer: USA responded with 40 % true True or False #3: Scientists believe in Evolution even though they currently lack evidence for the theory. correct answer: False! Based on know mechanisms: Natural Selection, Mutation, and Genetic Drift Key Point #2 correct answer: Biologists accept evolutionary theory because its predictions match observations. True or False #4: Extreme temperatures of 2015 are sufficient evidence to conclude that Earth is warming. correct answer: False! Not enough data to show trend. Single Temperature correct answer: Datum Normal Temperature correct answer: Mean (Average) Temperature Anomaly correct answer: Deviation Mean Anomaly correct answer: Standard Deviation Key Point #3 correct answer: When something varies over space and time, one must compare sufficient samples to quantify effects accurately. True or False #4: When calculating a normal temperature, one should include as many years as possible. correct answer: False! Climatologists tend to use a thirty year period. What does Replicating Observations do? correct answer: Increases reliability of patterns What does Control Conditions do? correct answer: Isolates effects of certain factors What does Random Subjects do? correct answer: Decreases bias from uncontrolled factors What is Creationism and Catastrophism? correct answer: All species created in six days, Earth is 6,000 years old, species fixed, extinctions from catastrophe. Leading Biologist/ Paleontologist who championed this science/theory/belief Georges Cuvier (). True or False #5: Darwin's worldview when leaving England would best be described as Creationism. correct answer: True! He was originally trying to become a doctor then clergyman then he finally became a Naturalist and joined Captain Fitzroy on the H. M. S. Beagle. What did Charles Lyell contribute to science in the context of Darwinian Evolution? correct answer: Charles Lyell () believed in the old earth ideologies and slow and gradual change. (Old Earth theory - billions and billions of years old) What do Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, and Alfred Wallace have in common? correct answer: Wallace came to same "Natural Selection" idea at similar time as Darwin did. Lyell read from Wallace's Report and Darwin's report Key Point # 4 correct answer: Darwin abandoned a theory of Creationism for a theory of evolution that better explained his observations about life. True or False #6: Darwin could not have propose