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ANTH 1 - Exam 1 Compilation

ANTH 1 - Exam 1 Compilation

Question 1 of 57

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Mutation:

Select one of the following:

  • a. any change in the genetic code.

  • b. may involve a single incorrect base in a codon.

  • c. must include a whole chromosome.

  • d. a and b.

  • e. a and c.

Explanation

Question 2 of 57

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Darwin's Gradualism:

Select one of the following:

  • a. involves slow and steady cumulative change.

  • b. involves fairly sudden change.

  • c. believed by Darwin to lead to new species.

  • d. a and c.

  • e. all of the above.

Explanation

Question 3 of 57

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Which of the following is not a reproductive isolating mechanism:

Select one of the following:

  • a. different pollinators.

  • b. gamete isolation.

  • c. natural selection.

  • d. hybrid inviability.

  • e. seasonal.

Explanation

Question 4 of 57

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Gene flow results in:

Select one of the following:

  • a. a new population drawn from a small sample of a parent population.

  • b. the exchange of genes among populations through interbreeding..

  • c. new genetic combinations in offspring.

  • d. b and c.

  • e. all of the above.

Explanation

Question 5 of 57

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A genotype is:

Select one of the following:

  • a. the chemical or physical results of genetic code.

  • b. when the alleles of a pair are only expressed if the gene is homogeneous.

  • c. the alleles possessed by an organism.

  • d. all of the above.

Explanation

Question 6 of 57

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The alleles possessed by an organism can come in three possible forms

Select one of the following:

  • a. homozygous (TT, tt) and heterozygous (Tt)

  • b. homozygous (Tt, tT) and heterozygous (TT)

  • c. heterozygous (TT, tt) and homozygous (Tt)

  • d. all of the above.

Explanation

Question 7 of 57

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Gregor Mendel reached the conclusion that each organism possess

Select one of the following:

  • a. two genes for each--trait one from each parent.

  • b. genes can come in different versions today called alleles.

  • c. some alleles are dominant and some are recessive.

  • d. dominant and recessive have no value attached to them.

  • e. all of the above.

Explanation

Question 8 of 57

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The Processes of Evolution are

Select one of the following:

  • a. natural selection.

  • b. gene flow.

  • c. genetic drift.

  • d. founder effect.

  • e. mutations.

  • f. all of the above except d.

  • g. none of the above.

Explanation

Question 9 of 57

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Catastrophism:

Select one of the following:

  • a. is the idea that history of the earth is explained by a series of global catastrophes, either natural, or of divine origin.

  • b. it was an attempt to reconcile the evidence with a biblical time frame.

  • c. the notion that there is an ideal, or essential, form of every natural entity and that the variations we see are largely inexact copies of the ideal.

  • d. a and b.

  • e. all of the above.

Explanation

Question 10 of 57

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DNA

Select one of the following:

  • a. is like a ladder with its ends twisted in opposite directions.

  • b. has only four bases involved: adenine (A), thymine (T), cytosine (C), and guanine (G).

  • c. shape is referred to as a double helix.

  • d. all of the above.

  • e. none of the above.

Explanation

Question 11 of 57

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Variation is now known to be in the genetic makeup of populations.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 12 of 57

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Genetic drift is the exchange of genes among populations through interbreeding.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 13 of 57

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Mitosis is the process of cell division in which gametes are produced.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 14 of 57

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The idea of evolution is simple: species of living things change over time and under the right circumstances this change can produce new species of living organisms from existing ones.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 15 of 57

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DNA carries the genetic code that is found in the nucleus of cells, on long strands called chromosomes.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 16 of 57

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Fitness is the relative adaptiveness of an individual organism measured ultimately by reproductive success.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 17 of 57

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Natural selection works on the variation that is known to be in the genetic makeup of populations.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 18 of 57

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Gene flow is the exchange of genes among populations though interbreeding.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 19 of 57

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A scientist uses "The Scientific Method" which answers questions according to a special set of rules that involves a cycle of steps.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 20 of 57

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Adaptation is the state in which an organism is adjusted to and can survive in its environment through its physical traits and behaviors.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 21 of 57

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Phenotype is the chemical or physical results of genetic code.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 22 of 57

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Mendelian genetics showed that inheritance does not involve the blending of substances but, rather, are particulate.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 23 of 57

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An allele is an alternative form of a gene (one member of a pair) that is located at a specific position on a specific chromosome.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 24 of 57

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The great Chain of being is the notion that there is an ideal, or essential, form of every natural entity and that the variations we see are largely inexact copies of the ideal.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 25 of 57

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Uniformitarianism is the idea that present-day geological processes (normal, every day uniform process) can also explain the history of the earth.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 26 of 57

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Though Darwin work with pea plants the basic laws of genetics were derived.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 27 of 57

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The genetic code is a set of instructions for the production (or synthesis) of proteins from amino acids.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 28 of 57

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Charles Darwin reasoned, some alleles are dominant and some are recessive.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 29 of 57

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Natural selection is the differential reproduction of individuals based on the relative adaptive value of their traits.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 30 of 57

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Individuals tend to find mates within their own breeding populations.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 31 of 57

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Ecological isolation probably explains the origin of hominids, the group to which our species belongs.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 32 of 57

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Microevolution is the branching of new species from existing species.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 33 of 57

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All life, through speciation and adaptive radiation, is descended from a single origin.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 34 of 57

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In hybrid sterility fertilization may occur, but the hybrid zygotes do not survive.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 35 of 57

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The complex process of environmental factors, is solely responsible for the final form and function of a living being.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 36 of 57

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Evolutionary change is at its most basic level genetic change.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 37 of 57

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Macroevolution is the continuous transformation of a unitary population through time.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 38 of 57

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Sexual behaviors that attract one sex to the other are called courtship behaviors.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 39 of 57

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Genetic drift is mistakes in the genetic mechanism that add new variation to a species' gene pool.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 40 of 57

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There is nothing that can change what genes code for, except a change in the code itself, such a change is called a mutation.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 41 of 57

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Primates of the family hominidae include: modern humans, earlier humans subspecies, and their direct human ancestors.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 42 of 57

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Functionally similar but evolutionary unrelated traits are known as analogies.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 43 of 57

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This adaptation, called bipedalism (exhibited by modern apes), is a form of locomotion that involves placing the backs of the middle joints of the fingers on the ground.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 44 of 57

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Paranthropus is known to have spread far out of Africa and adapted to a wide range of temperate, tropical, and cold environments throughout Europe and Asia.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 45 of 57

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Homo habilis "wise person" is a recent, separate species.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 46 of 57

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Based on the mitochondrial DNA evidence, Homo nenderthalensis is though to be a direct ancestor to modern humans.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 47 of 57

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The fossil record indicates that an increase in brain size was the first hominid trait to evolve.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 48 of 57

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A taxonomy is a classification system based on similarities and differences.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 49 of 57

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Australopithecus had overall skeletal proportions much like those of modern humans.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 50 of 57

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Radiocarbon dating is a relative dating technique.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 51 of 57

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The early African hominids radiated into three distinct groups, often classified as separate genera Australopithecus, Paranthropus, and Homo.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 52 of 57

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Humans, chimpanzees, and bonobos have all adapted to different environmental niches.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 53 of 57

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Homo habilis is the fossil find commonly referred to as "Lucy".

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 54 of 57

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The following is not an absolute dating technique:

Select one of the following:

  • a. carbon 14

  • b. potassium/ Argon

  • c. stratigraphy

  • d. all of the above

  • e. a and b

Explanation

Question 55 of 57

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The AR model hypothesizes that Homo sapiens

Select one of the following:

  • a. evolved recently as a species.

  • b. evolved in Africa

  • c. spread to replace more archaic populations

  • d. all of the above

  • e. none of the above

Explanation

Question 56 of 57

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The MRE origins model hypothesizes that Homo sapiens

Select one of the following:

  • a. evolved

  • b. evolved only in Africa

  • c. all of the above

  • d. none of the above

Explanation

Question 57 of 57

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The common prehensile ability that modern humans exhibit and share with our close relatives

Select one of the following:

  • a. is a shared derived characteristic,

  • b. come from the same ancient ancestor and serves the same basic function.

  • c. all of the above

  • d. none of the above

Explanation

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