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Bio 107 Midterm 1 Review Questions with Correct Answers Graded A+ What does DNA stand for? Deoxyribonucleic acid In what way is artificial selection different from natural selection? In artificial selection, human preference is the selecting force; in natural selection, environmental conditions are the selecting forces. Which of the following is what scientists mean when they use the term theory? A set of findings that are supported by repeated testing. Who is responsible for the the...

1. One of the reasons for taking a course in history is that “Those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it.” Who said this? [A] George Santayana [B] Thomas Kuhn [C] William James [D] E. G. Boring 2. In 1954, Hastorf and Cantril showed students from Dartmouth and Princeton film clips of the football game between the two schools. Their study showed that [A] the injury to the Princeton quarterback was accidental [B] students who viewed the film were objective in their assessme...

BIO 112 ASU Final Exam Questions and Answers Already Passed Natural selection: Basic requirement for natural selection to occur in a population: organisms in the same population must differ from one another in their heritable traits. Examples of natural selection and evolution at work include which of the following? -The case of the bacteria Staphylococcus aureus resistance to first penicillin, then methicillin, and now vancomycin. -Housefly resistance to DDT within a decade of its ...

TAMU Biology 112 Final Exam Questions with 100% Correct Answers Aristotle - Answer- Scala naturae Linnaeus - Answer- Binomial nomenclature Darwin - Answer- Fossils, strata Cuvier - Answer- Strata, extinction, Opposed evolution, catastrophic events caused extinction Hutton and Lyell - Answer- Gradualism, continuous geological growth, earth is OLD Lamarck - Answer- Use it or lose it, we get bigger and better, Adaptations - Answer- Inherited characteristics that enhance survival and reprod...

Anthropology Exam 1 WVU 50 Questions with Answers the measure of success under natural selection is a. how many offspring are produced b. whether an individual lives or dies c. how well adapted an individual is d. how well adapted the species is >>> a. how many offspring are produced founder effect: a. is a type of genetic drift that results when only a small number of individuals from a larger propulsion starts a new population b. is a for of gene flow in which muted genes...

What did Aristotle believe? correct answer: Species were fixed creations arranged by their complexity Who contributed to Darwin's thinking? correct answer: •Charles Lyell •Thomas Malthus •George Cuvier •James Hutton •John Baptiste Lamarck •Alfred Russell Wallace Charles Lyell correct answer: Uniformitarism (geologic processed still change earth) Principles of Geology correct answer: •published by Lyell just before Beagle set sail and read by Darwin •explained...

Die Hard - ANSWER--1988 John McTiernan -Conventions of a modern Western -unusual because of typical 80's action hero casting -big on non-verbal cues in the exposition How does Die Hard follow a "Western" story arc? - ANSWER-Die Hard follows the "Western" story arch (outsider, outlawed hero, strong moral compass) Show that the Hero has the same skill set as the villain, a gunslinger Ie: spectacular shooting with nonlethal effects The Teddy Bears - ANSWER--1907 Edwin S. Porter & W...

ANT100 EVO Exam Questions and Answers 100% Pass Problems limiting development of theory of evolution: - Answer- 1. Lack of knowledge on age of earth --> Bishop Usher stated that Earth was created at 2:30pm of October 23rd, 4004 BC - it was accepted because it was too dangerous to disagree w/ the church 2. Religious concept of fixity of species --> Thought God placed all animals on Earth in their current forms 3. Lack of scientific method --> Many ideas/concepts based on singula...

Frenchman responsible for the belief that organisms could inherit acquired characteristics - Jean Baptiste de Lamark Time Spirit - Zeitgeist Effect caused when a natural disaster results in a few individuals remaining in a population with different allele frequencies by chance - Bottleneck effect Author of "Principles of Geology"; a book that would have an important influence on Darwin - Sir Charles Lyell He failed to become a doctor and a minister, but went on to revolutionize the st...

Evolution Correct Answer change overtime Biological evolution Correct Answer consists of genetic change in populations of organisms across generations The two naturalists from England who established the idea of natural selection Correct Answer 1. Alfred Russell Wallace 2.Charles Darwin Where Alfred studied natural selection Correct Answer Archipelago Where Charles Darwin studied natural selection Correct Answer on his voyage of HMS Beagle HMS Beagle Correct Answer Charles Darwin...