Bio 400 final exam with correct answers
The so-called Modern Synthesis was constructed by _____ in the approximate ______
period.
A. Theodosius Dobzhansky...1910-1920
B. Ernst Mayr...1950-1970
C. RA Fisher...1940-1960
D. Several people...1925-1945
E. Several people...1910-1915 - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔D
Which statement about the idea of evolution by natural selection is most correct?
A. Its genetic basis was not understood until the 1890s
B. It was considered a plausible idea when Darwin proposed it, but was not accepted fully in
biology until the 1940s
C. Darwin stole the idea without attribution from Patrick Matthews
D. The idea was first suggested to Darwin by Alfred Russel Wallace
E. Darwin had been playing with the idea since he was a medical student in Edinburgh - **
VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔B
Erasmus Darwin regarded vestigial structures in organisms as:
A. Puzzles posed to us by God
B. Evidence of divine creation
C. Having obscure functions we have not yet discerned
D. Proto-structures that later in evolutionary history would assume as valuable biological
function
E. Evidence of evolutionary descent - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔E
,The Upas tree of legend
A. Is based on a real tree in Germany
B. Is based on an imaginary tree mentioned in the Bible
C. Confounds the Tree of Knowledge in the Garden of Eden with a rare flowering plant
discovered by John Mandeville during his travels
D. Is based on a real tree that makes a toxic sap
E. Is a botanical version of the sphinx legend - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔D
Which of the following was *not* a contribution of the lab of Thomas Hunt Morgan to the
study of genetics?
A. The use of mutations in identifying genes
B. The discovery of hybridization and segregation in plants
C. Genetics maps
D. Evidence that genetic information is 1-dimensional
E. Sex-linked traits - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔B
The Pacific islands where Darwin saw most clearly the evidences of evolutionary
relationship ______ - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Galapagos
Models which propose evolutionary changes in large jumps ______ - ** VERIFIED
ANSWERS **✔✔Saltationist
Gregor Mendel's day job ______ - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Monk
The insect that was the focus of work in Morgan's lab _____ - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS
**✔✔Fruit fly
,The Piltdown fossils were accepted as genuine & significant among many British scientists
partly because
A. Charles Darwin was a respected human paleontologist at the University of Oxford
B. King George V gave his own personal endorsement of the reality of the finds
C. The fossils confirmed the "brain-led" hypothesis of human evolution which was popular
in Britain at the time
D. They suggested that early British people had a distinctly larger brain case than people
from France, where only Cro-Magnon remains had been found
E. Darwin, in the 19th century, had guessed that our species evolved in England - **
VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔C
Which book about science did Darwin value most when he was a student at Cambridge?
A. Species Plantarum, by Linneaus
B. Natural History, by Buffon
C. Natural Theology, by Paley
D. Natural History, by Pliny
E. Principles of Geology, by Charles Lyell - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔C
Of the people on this list, who was most aware of Darwin's evolutionary thinking at an early
stage?
A. His grandfather
B. Asa Gray
C. Lord Kevin
D. Joseph Hooker
E. Robert Chambers - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔D
Mendel's attempt to repeat his results was directed down the wrong channel by
A. Nageli
, B. Darwin
C. de Vries
D. Lyell
E. Huxley - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔A
Upas tree: - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Known as the Javan Tree of Death, and that
name gave it Biblical credibility
Tree of Life in Bible (Garden of Eden)
Everything has its opposite... so needed a Tree of Death
Killed people by emitting something
Upas tree was first mentioned by _____ & _____ in the _____th century - ** VERIFIED
ANSWERS **✔✔Friar Oderich of Portenau
John Mandeville
12
Friar Oderich of Portenau: - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔1330
Oderich wrote down many observations
His manuscript was found by Mandeville, and copied his work & published it as his own
John Mandeville: - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔1355
Except that Mandeville didn't exist!
A nobleman was too poor to pay for his physician, so he gave him the manuscript as
payment and the physician published it
But on his deathbed, physician admitted that he made up the whole story; he himself stole it
from Oderich
The so-called Modern Synthesis was constructed by _____ in the approximate ______
period.
A. Theodosius Dobzhansky...1910-1920
B. Ernst Mayr...1950-1970
C. RA Fisher...1940-1960
D. Several people...1925-1945
E. Several people...1910-1915 - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔D
Which statement about the idea of evolution by natural selection is most correct?
A. Its genetic basis was not understood until the 1890s
B. It was considered a plausible idea when Darwin proposed it, but was not accepted fully in
biology until the 1940s
C. Darwin stole the idea without attribution from Patrick Matthews
D. The idea was first suggested to Darwin by Alfred Russel Wallace
E. Darwin had been playing with the idea since he was a medical student in Edinburgh - **
VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔B
Erasmus Darwin regarded vestigial structures in organisms as:
A. Puzzles posed to us by God
B. Evidence of divine creation
C. Having obscure functions we have not yet discerned
D. Proto-structures that later in evolutionary history would assume as valuable biological
function
E. Evidence of evolutionary descent - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔E
,The Upas tree of legend
A. Is based on a real tree in Germany
B. Is based on an imaginary tree mentioned in the Bible
C. Confounds the Tree of Knowledge in the Garden of Eden with a rare flowering plant
discovered by John Mandeville during his travels
D. Is based on a real tree that makes a toxic sap
E. Is a botanical version of the sphinx legend - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔D
Which of the following was *not* a contribution of the lab of Thomas Hunt Morgan to the
study of genetics?
A. The use of mutations in identifying genes
B. The discovery of hybridization and segregation in plants
C. Genetics maps
D. Evidence that genetic information is 1-dimensional
E. Sex-linked traits - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔B
The Pacific islands where Darwin saw most clearly the evidences of evolutionary
relationship ______ - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Galapagos
Models which propose evolutionary changes in large jumps ______ - ** VERIFIED
ANSWERS **✔✔Saltationist
Gregor Mendel's day job ______ - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Monk
The insect that was the focus of work in Morgan's lab _____ - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS
**✔✔Fruit fly
,The Piltdown fossils were accepted as genuine & significant among many British scientists
partly because
A. Charles Darwin was a respected human paleontologist at the University of Oxford
B. King George V gave his own personal endorsement of the reality of the finds
C. The fossils confirmed the "brain-led" hypothesis of human evolution which was popular
in Britain at the time
D. They suggested that early British people had a distinctly larger brain case than people
from France, where only Cro-Magnon remains had been found
E. Darwin, in the 19th century, had guessed that our species evolved in England - **
VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔C
Which book about science did Darwin value most when he was a student at Cambridge?
A. Species Plantarum, by Linneaus
B. Natural History, by Buffon
C. Natural Theology, by Paley
D. Natural History, by Pliny
E. Principles of Geology, by Charles Lyell - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔C
Of the people on this list, who was most aware of Darwin's evolutionary thinking at an early
stage?
A. His grandfather
B. Asa Gray
C. Lord Kevin
D. Joseph Hooker
E. Robert Chambers - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔D
Mendel's attempt to repeat his results was directed down the wrong channel by
A. Nageli
, B. Darwin
C. de Vries
D. Lyell
E. Huxley - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔A
Upas tree: - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Known as the Javan Tree of Death, and that
name gave it Biblical credibility
Tree of Life in Bible (Garden of Eden)
Everything has its opposite... so needed a Tree of Death
Killed people by emitting something
Upas tree was first mentioned by _____ & _____ in the _____th century - ** VERIFIED
ANSWERS **✔✔Friar Oderich of Portenau
John Mandeville
12
Friar Oderich of Portenau: - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔1330
Oderich wrote down many observations
His manuscript was found by Mandeville, and copied his work & published it as his own
John Mandeville: - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔1355
Except that Mandeville didn't exist!
A nobleman was too poor to pay for his physician, so he gave him the manuscript as
payment and the physician published it
But on his deathbed, physician admitted that he made up the whole story; he himself stole it
from Oderich
