ASU BIO 182 Exam 1 Questions With Complete Solutions

Elements that organisms require to grow and reproduce correct answer: Hydrogen, Carbon, Nitrogen, Oxygen, Phosphorus, and Sulfur Similarities in arm structures of animals result from what factors ... correct answer: Certain bones are similar because all of these animals are mammals with a shared common ancestor. These bones and limbs are actually very different with different uses. Shared features in many organisms results from ... correct answer: shared common descent and evolution Examples of human-modified organisms correct answer: Dogs, Corn, Sheep, Cabbage How do we know that natural selection is real? correct answer: Breeds of pigeons, chickens, dogs, sheep, and tamable foxes Individuals vary in evolution due to correct answer: Genetic variation and environmental variation Antiobiotic Resistance correct answer: Some bacteria populations contain a few individuals with mutations which give resistance to antibiotic drugs Other examples of evolution through natural selection in the medical field correct answer: Cancer progression, COVID-19 delta variant (virus evolved) Organisms that are considered "keystone species" correct answer: Elephants, Prairie dogs, and Beavers Charles Darwin correct answer: Traveled to the Galapagos Islands on the HMS Beagle and later wrote the book "The Origin of Species." Alfred Russell Wallace correct answer: Independently came to same conclusions as Darwin about evolution and natural selection Watchmaker Analogy correct answer: The complexity of a watch implies a watchmaker, therefore the biological complexity of living organisms implies a creator. Irreducible Complexity correct answer: The idea that parts of organisms are so complex and dependent on one another that they cannot be reduced to something less complex and still function, providing evidence for Creation The Blind Watchmaker Theory correct answer: Living organisms with biological complexity have the appearance of design, but it rather results from the "blind" process of natural selection