BIOL 180 Exam MOD 003 Concepts and Questions 2023 GRADED A+ and ATESTED COD 137

special creation correct answers 1. All species are independent 2. Life on Earth is young 3. species are immutable Pattern correct answers summarizes observations about the natural world (what happened) Process correct answers a mechanism that produces the pattern/set of observations (how it happened) Darwin's 4 Postulates correct answers 1. variation exists within a population 2. some traits are heritable 3. survival/reproductive success is variable 4. the subset of individuals that survive best and produce the most offspring is not a random sample Lamarckian evolution correct answers inheritance of acquired characters Requirements for natural selection correct answers 1. variation 2. inheritance 3. excess reproduction 4. differential success Blending inheritance correct answers the traits observed in a mother and father blend together to form traits in their offspring, so offspring's traits are intermediate between traits of the mother and father Inheritance of acquired characters correct answers traits present in parents are modified through use and then passed on to their offspring in the modified form Polymorphic trait correct answers having more than one different form of an allele or trait that appears commonly in a population Particulate inheritance correct answers inheritance is based on genes that do not blend in offspring but remain separate Principle of segregation correct answers each pair of hereditary elements (consisting of alleles on the same gene) separate from each other during meiosis Principle of independent assortment correct answers each pair of hereditary elements (alleles of the same gene) segregated independently of alleles of other genes during meiosis Haploid number correct answers the number of different types of chromosomes in a cell Ploidy correct answers the number of complete chromosome sets present in a cell