BIO 182 Exam 1-ASU UPDATED ACTUAL
Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
how many species live in planet Earth? - CORRECT ANSWER - unknown-roughly 3 to 5
million
why is life so incredibly diverse, yet so strangely similar? - CORRECT ANSWER -
organisms can contain similar features. planes have wings, birds have wings-this feature is useful
for different things (different for penguins, pelicans, bats, eagles)
true or false: biodiversity on earth will likely decrease in the near future? - CORRECT
ANSWER -
true or false: scientists believe in evolution even though they currently lack evidence for the
theory - CORRECT ANSWER - false
true or false: opposition to irrational numbers was based on evidence that such numbers cannot
exist - CORRECT ANSWER - false
true or false: opposition to irrational numbers stemmed from a worldview involving naturalistic
evolution - CORRECT ANSWER - false
true or false: the belief that irrational numbers cannot exist reflects religion more than science -
CORRECT ANSWER - true
true or false: modern mathematicians accept irrational numbers because such numbers provide
more accurate solutions to problems than whole numbers do - CORRECT ANSWER - true
the scientific method relies on.... - CORRECT ANSWER - models, observations, and
experiments
, a model is a formal description of a scientific hypothesis. which provides the most precise
description of a hypothesis? - CORRECT ANSWER -
true or false: an experiment enables one to demonstrate that a correlation between two variables
results from cause and effect - CORRECT ANSWER - true
a well designed experiment... - CORRECT ANSWER - controls for environmental and
genetic factors, involves replications of experimental subjects, and randomizes experimental
subject among treatments
true or false: unlike Wallace, Darwin did not believe that natural selection required variation
among individuals - CORRECT ANSWER - false
true or false: Wallace used induction to develop a model of evolution by natural selection -
CORRECT ANSWER - true
unlike Wallace, Darwin's conceived his theory of evolution without observing species living on
islands - CORRECT ANSWER - false
true or false: both Darwin and Wallace must have assumed that differences among individuals
were passed onto their offspring - CORRECT ANSWER - true
true or false: similar to Wallace, Darwin conceived a theory of evolution by natural selection
while voyaging around the world - CORRECT ANSWER - false
true or false: both Wallace and Darwin adopted a worldview described as either naturalistic
evolution or theistic evolutions - CORRECT ANSWER - true
true or false: a probability of 0.98 means that an event occurs rarely - CORRECT
ANSWER - false
Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
how many species live in planet Earth? - CORRECT ANSWER - unknown-roughly 3 to 5
million
why is life so incredibly diverse, yet so strangely similar? - CORRECT ANSWER -
organisms can contain similar features. planes have wings, birds have wings-this feature is useful
for different things (different for penguins, pelicans, bats, eagles)
true or false: biodiversity on earth will likely decrease in the near future? - CORRECT
ANSWER -
true or false: scientists believe in evolution even though they currently lack evidence for the
theory - CORRECT ANSWER - false
true or false: opposition to irrational numbers was based on evidence that such numbers cannot
exist - CORRECT ANSWER - false
true or false: opposition to irrational numbers stemmed from a worldview involving naturalistic
evolution - CORRECT ANSWER - false
true or false: the belief that irrational numbers cannot exist reflects religion more than science -
CORRECT ANSWER - true
true or false: modern mathematicians accept irrational numbers because such numbers provide
more accurate solutions to problems than whole numbers do - CORRECT ANSWER - true
the scientific method relies on.... - CORRECT ANSWER - models, observations, and
experiments
, a model is a formal description of a scientific hypothesis. which provides the most precise
description of a hypothesis? - CORRECT ANSWER -
true or false: an experiment enables one to demonstrate that a correlation between two variables
results from cause and effect - CORRECT ANSWER - true
a well designed experiment... - CORRECT ANSWER - controls for environmental and
genetic factors, involves replications of experimental subjects, and randomizes experimental
subject among treatments
true or false: unlike Wallace, Darwin did not believe that natural selection required variation
among individuals - CORRECT ANSWER - false
true or false: Wallace used induction to develop a model of evolution by natural selection -
CORRECT ANSWER - true
unlike Wallace, Darwin's conceived his theory of evolution without observing species living on
islands - CORRECT ANSWER - false
true or false: both Darwin and Wallace must have assumed that differences among individuals
were passed onto their offspring - CORRECT ANSWER - true
true or false: similar to Wallace, Darwin conceived a theory of evolution by natural selection
while voyaging around the world - CORRECT ANSWER - false
true or false: both Wallace and Darwin adopted a worldview described as either naturalistic
evolution or theistic evolutions - CORRECT ANSWER - true
true or false: a probability of 0.98 means that an event occurs rarely - CORRECT
ANSWER - false
