BIO 182 Exam 1-ASU Exam Questions Correctly Answered

EXAM STUDY MATERIALS July 26, 2024 9:30 AM BIO 182 Exam 1 -ASU Exam Questions Correctly Answered How many species live in planet Earth? - answer✔✔unknown -roughly 3 to 5 million why is life so incredibly diverse, yet so strangely similar? - answer✔✔organisms can contain similar features. planes have wings, birds have wings -this feature is useful for di fferent things (different for penguins, pelicans, bats, eagles) true or false: biodiversity on earth will likely decrease in the near future? - answer✔✔ true or false: scientists believe in evolution even though they currently lack evidence for the theory - answer✔✔false true or false: opposition to irrational numbers was based on evidence that such numbers cannot exist - answer✔✔false true or false: opposition to irrational numbers stemmed from a worldview involving naturalistic evolution - answer✔✔false true or false: the belief that irrational numbers cannot exist reflects religion more than science - answer✔✔true true or false: modern mathematicians accept irrational numbers because such numbers provide more accurate solutions to problems than whole numb ers do - answer✔✔true the scientific method relies on.... - answer✔✔models, observations, and experiments a model is a formal description of a scientific hypothesis. which provides the most precise description of a hypothesis? - answer✔✔ true or false: an experiment enables one to demonstrate that a correlation between two variables results from cause and effect - answer✔✔true a well designed experiment... - answer✔✔controls for environmental and genetic factors, involves replications of experimental subjec ts, and randomizes experimental subject among treatments true or false: unlike Wallace, Darwin did not believe that natural selection required variation among individuals - answer✔✔false