Eeob 3310 Exam 1 With Correct Solutions,2025

Eeob 3310 Exam 1 With Correct
Solutions,2025.




Natural Theology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔A philosophy dedicated to discovering the Creator's plan by
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j studying nature. Adaptations of organisms are viewed as evidence that the Creator had designed each and
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j every species for a particular purpose. *William Buckland*
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Methodological Naturalism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔based on premise that our senses ( and extensions of
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the senses through instruments) gives accurate info about the universe
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3 main questions:
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What is there? j j




How does it work?
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How did it come to be this way?
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Uniformitarianism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔proposed that geologic features result from continuous
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processes which are still at work today (Charles Lyell)
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Catastrophism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔proposed that Earth's landscapes were shaped primarily by
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catastrophes, followed a biblical timeline
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, Archipelagos/Island - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔another set of volcanic islands visited by the HMS Beagle, j j j j j j j j j j j j




related to Africa
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Aristotelian view (of species) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔species were fixed, unchanging with variation due to
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developmental stressors
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Darwinian view (of species) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔intraspecific variation is present within species and is
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essential for his mechanistic explanation of evolutionary change
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Classic view of species (Modern Synthesis) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔organismal populations are well-
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adapted to the environment, there should be little genetic variation within populations
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heterozygosity - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔having different alleles at a gene locus j j j j j j j j j




polymorphic - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔having various forms j j j j j




SNP - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Single nucleotide polymorphism, change of base of single DNA nucleotide,
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makes up 90% of all human genetic variation
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fitness - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔measure of relative ability of an organism to create viable offspring
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selective agent - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Any factor that brings about differences in reproductive success
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selective pressure - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔the interaction between a selective agent and the population
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under selection
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adaptation - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔phenotypic trait that confers differential reproductive success to the
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individuals possessing it
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