BIOL 370 Exam 2 QUESTIONS &
ANSWERS RATED A+ ALREADY
PASSED
the Darwinian Model - correct answer ✔✔ - overproduction
- variation
- environmental pressures
- natural selection
the Neo-Darwinian Synthesis - correct answer ✔✔ - evo scientist 20 yr convention
- designed to explain variation
- merge Mendel and Darwin
Lamarck - correct answer ✔✔ - acquired characteristics
- giraffes
Darwin - correct answer ✔✔ - natural selection
- variation w/in population
rough dates for Lamarck, Darwin, Mendel, Synthesis - correct answer ✔✔ - 1809
- 1859
- 1869
- 30s - 40s
Ernst Mayr - correct answer ✔✔ - biological species concept
, - all members of a species can repro
Bermann's Rule - correct answer ✔✔ - as altitude increases, body size increases
- where it gets really cold, it's better to be large
- little animals have large SAVs compared to bigger animals
Allen's Rule - correct answer ✔✔ - extremities
- as altitude increase, ear size decreases
- selection against large ears in cold environments
Gloger's Rule - correct answer ✔✔ - color and xeric environments
- lighter colored animals in xeric environments
- darker animals in mesic environments
cline - correct answer ✔✔ gradual change in characteristics moving across regions
non-clinal - correct answer ✔✔ - doesn't show intermediates
- attributed to environmental pressures
define a species (3 ways) - correct answer ✔✔ - morphological (what it looks like)
- biological (can reproduce)
- phylogenetic (smallest irreducible group of organisms that can be defined by an apomorphic
characteristic)
speciation - correct answer ✔✔ the development of new species through evolution
ANSWERS RATED A+ ALREADY
PASSED
the Darwinian Model - correct answer ✔✔ - overproduction
- variation
- environmental pressures
- natural selection
the Neo-Darwinian Synthesis - correct answer ✔✔ - evo scientist 20 yr convention
- designed to explain variation
- merge Mendel and Darwin
Lamarck - correct answer ✔✔ - acquired characteristics
- giraffes
Darwin - correct answer ✔✔ - natural selection
- variation w/in population
rough dates for Lamarck, Darwin, Mendel, Synthesis - correct answer ✔✔ - 1809
- 1859
- 1869
- 30s - 40s
Ernst Mayr - correct answer ✔✔ - biological species concept
, - all members of a species can repro
Bermann's Rule - correct answer ✔✔ - as altitude increases, body size increases
- where it gets really cold, it's better to be large
- little animals have large SAVs compared to bigger animals
Allen's Rule - correct answer ✔✔ - extremities
- as altitude increase, ear size decreases
- selection against large ears in cold environments
Gloger's Rule - correct answer ✔✔ - color and xeric environments
- lighter colored animals in xeric environments
- darker animals in mesic environments
cline - correct answer ✔✔ gradual change in characteristics moving across regions
non-clinal - correct answer ✔✔ - doesn't show intermediates
- attributed to environmental pressures
define a species (3 ways) - correct answer ✔✔ - morphological (what it looks like)
- biological (can reproduce)
- phylogenetic (smallest irreducible group of organisms that can be defined by an apomorphic
characteristic)
speciation - correct answer ✔✔ the development of new species through evolution
