STUDY SET questions with complete
solutions
Which of the following is not a basic primate characteristic?
A) giving birth to single offspring
B) hands with opposable thumbs
C) fingernails
D) binocular vision
E) an enhanced sense of smell - correct answer ✔✔E) an enhanced sense of smell
Vertical clinging and leaping is a locomotor pattern frequently practiced by which
of the following?
A) apes
B) lemurs and tarsiers
C) terrestrial monkeys
D) Old World monkeys
E) gibbons - correct answer ✔✔B) lemurs and tarsiers
The term for a mating system in which males, and some cases females, have
several mating partners is
A) Estrus
B) Sexual selection
C) Polygynous