EEOB 3310 EXAM QUESTIONS AND 100%
CORRECT ANSWERS!!
Charles Darwin married his cousin Emma Wedgewood. Why wasn't he worried about
inbreeding depression?
A. Darwin was slightly nervous about his performance and didn't expect any children to
result from his marriage.
B. Darwin knew very little about genetics and nothing about the loss of heterozygosity and
the exposure of deleterious recessive alleles that is caused by inbreeding.
C. In truth, he was a little worried about inbreeding depression, but his cousin was very
attractive -- and wealthy!
D. Darwin knew that he was adopted by Richard Darwin since his father was sterile due to
an unfortunate accident with overly tight breeches.
B
Which of the following is not a requirement for natural selection to act to change allele
frequencies in a population:
A. That there is variance in reproductive success.
B. That reproductive success is dependent in some way on the genetic variation.
C. That within-population genetic variation is present.
D.That this variation is heritable.
E. That the population mates at random.
E
Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric aka 'Georges' Cuvier was extremely influential prior to
Darwin's work. How would Cuvier have explained extinction?
A. Fossil animals were placed by the devil to mislead Christians, so extinct animals were
essentially fakes and never existed on the planet.
B. Entire species were destroyed by cataclysmic events such as Noah's flood that were
caused by God. Cuvier's explanation was essentially that God caused extinction.
C. Extinction was caused by the failure of certain species to compete for resources due to
an inability to adapt.
,D. Species were wiped off the face of the earth during the last ice age in an attempt by the
creator to wipe the slate clean.
B
Fill in the blanks to make the following statement true: Adaptation describes _______ trait
that makes an organism more fit to its environment, and that has arisen as a result of
_______ .
a phenotypic, in vitro fertilization
an inherited, natural selection
a phenotypic, genetic drift
pleiotrophic, natural selection
an evolving, founder effect
An inheiritied, natural selection
Why did Darwin devote so much of his time to pigeons?
A. He wanted to develop credible expertise at artificial reproduction.
B. He knew that breeders had figured out how hereditary information was passed between
parents and offspring.
C. Darwin was hoping to understand how allelic crosses combined to make complex
phenotypes in the offspring.
D. Pigeons were an example of a new species, and Darwin was trying to figure out how new
species were formed.
E. He was hoping to understand how hereditary information was passed between parents
and offspring, and explore the power of artificial selection to shape species.
E
During the voyage of the Beagle, Darwin visited both the Cape de Verde islands and the
Galapagos islands. Why were these visits so important to the development of his theory of
evolution? Select THE BEST answer.
A. The islands were formed via marine subduction, which proved Lyell's theory of
uniformitarianism and suggested that the earth was older than 6000 years.
B. The marine iguanas of the Galapagos islands demonstrated that species could acquire
, novel traits.
C. The islands had nearly identical habitat and climate, but the species on each island
resembled those on the nearby continents, rather than each other. This provided evidence
against special creation.
D. Darwin was struck by the diversity of finches on the Cape de Verde islands, which
demonstrated that adaptation to local habitats could occur.
C
Which of the following examples best illustrates the concept of spontaneous generation?
A. Some sea anemones spontaneously bud newly developed young from their outer skin.
B. When a dried bean is moistened and kept moist, it spontaneously transforms into a bean
sprout.
C. During flooding, frogs spontaneously arise from mud.
D. Maggots spontaneously transform in to flies.
C
Identify the word that matches this definition: empirical evidence interpreted through logic
- based on premise that our senses, and extensions of our senses through the use of
instruments, provides accurate information about the physical universe
A. materialism
B. determinism
C. methodological naturalism
D. naturalism
E. exaptationism
methodical naturalism
How did Charles Lyell explain Earth's geological features?
A. Lyell said Earth's features were a result of the same processes currently observable,
which have occurred over very long periods of time in a slow, gradual manner.
B. Lyell said Earth's features were a result of the same processes currently observable,
which have occurred over relatively short periods of time punctuated by periods of rapid
change.
CORRECT ANSWERS!!
Charles Darwin married his cousin Emma Wedgewood. Why wasn't he worried about
inbreeding depression?
A. Darwin was slightly nervous about his performance and didn't expect any children to
result from his marriage.
B. Darwin knew very little about genetics and nothing about the loss of heterozygosity and
the exposure of deleterious recessive alleles that is caused by inbreeding.
C. In truth, he was a little worried about inbreeding depression, but his cousin was very
attractive -- and wealthy!
D. Darwin knew that he was adopted by Richard Darwin since his father was sterile due to
an unfortunate accident with overly tight breeches.
B
Which of the following is not a requirement for natural selection to act to change allele
frequencies in a population:
A. That there is variance in reproductive success.
B. That reproductive success is dependent in some way on the genetic variation.
C. That within-population genetic variation is present.
D.That this variation is heritable.
E. That the population mates at random.
E
Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric aka 'Georges' Cuvier was extremely influential prior to
Darwin's work. How would Cuvier have explained extinction?
A. Fossil animals were placed by the devil to mislead Christians, so extinct animals were
essentially fakes and never existed on the planet.
B. Entire species were destroyed by cataclysmic events such as Noah's flood that were
caused by God. Cuvier's explanation was essentially that God caused extinction.
C. Extinction was caused by the failure of certain species to compete for resources due to
an inability to adapt.
,D. Species were wiped off the face of the earth during the last ice age in an attempt by the
creator to wipe the slate clean.
B
Fill in the blanks to make the following statement true: Adaptation describes _______ trait
that makes an organism more fit to its environment, and that has arisen as a result of
_______ .
a phenotypic, in vitro fertilization
an inherited, natural selection
a phenotypic, genetic drift
pleiotrophic, natural selection
an evolving, founder effect
An inheiritied, natural selection
Why did Darwin devote so much of his time to pigeons?
A. He wanted to develop credible expertise at artificial reproduction.
B. He knew that breeders had figured out how hereditary information was passed between
parents and offspring.
C. Darwin was hoping to understand how allelic crosses combined to make complex
phenotypes in the offspring.
D. Pigeons were an example of a new species, and Darwin was trying to figure out how new
species were formed.
E. He was hoping to understand how hereditary information was passed between parents
and offspring, and explore the power of artificial selection to shape species.
E
During the voyage of the Beagle, Darwin visited both the Cape de Verde islands and the
Galapagos islands. Why were these visits so important to the development of his theory of
evolution? Select THE BEST answer.
A. The islands were formed via marine subduction, which proved Lyell's theory of
uniformitarianism and suggested that the earth was older than 6000 years.
B. The marine iguanas of the Galapagos islands demonstrated that species could acquire
, novel traits.
C. The islands had nearly identical habitat and climate, but the species on each island
resembled those on the nearby continents, rather than each other. This provided evidence
against special creation.
D. Darwin was struck by the diversity of finches on the Cape de Verde islands, which
demonstrated that adaptation to local habitats could occur.
C
Which of the following examples best illustrates the concept of spontaneous generation?
A. Some sea anemones spontaneously bud newly developed young from their outer skin.
B. When a dried bean is moistened and kept moist, it spontaneously transforms into a bean
sprout.
C. During flooding, frogs spontaneously arise from mud.
D. Maggots spontaneously transform in to flies.
C
Identify the word that matches this definition: empirical evidence interpreted through logic
- based on premise that our senses, and extensions of our senses through the use of
instruments, provides accurate information about the physical universe
A. materialism
B. determinism
C. methodological naturalism
D. naturalism
E. exaptationism
methodical naturalism
How did Charles Lyell explain Earth's geological features?
A. Lyell said Earth's features were a result of the same processes currently observable,
which have occurred over very long periods of time in a slow, gradual manner.
B. Lyell said Earth's features were a result of the same processes currently observable,
which have occurred over relatively short periods of time punctuated by periods of rapid
change.
