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physical anthropology 1 exam
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Questão 1

Questão
Mutation:
Responda
  • 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.

Questão 2

Questão
Darwin's Gradualism:
Responda
  • 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.

Questão 3

Questão
Which of the following is not a reproductive isolating mechanism:
Responda
  • a. different pollinators.
  • b. gamete isolation.
  • c. natural selection.
  • d. hybrid inviability.
  • e. seasonal.

Questão 4

Questão
Gene flow results in:
Responda
  • 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.

Questão 5

Questão
A genotype is:
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  • 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.

Questão 6

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

Questão 7

Questão
Gregor Mendel reached the conclusion that each organism possess
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  • 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.

Questão 8

Questão
The Processes of Evolution are
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  • 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.

Questão 9

Questão
Catastrophism:
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  • 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.

Questão 10

Questão
DNA
Responda
  • 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.

Questão 11

Questão
Variation is now known to be in the genetic makeup of populations.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 12

Questão
Genetic drift is the exchange of genes among populations through interbreeding.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 13

Questão
Mitosis is the process of cell division in which gametes are produced.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 14

Questão
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.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 15

Questão
DNA carries the genetic code that is found in the nucleus of cells, on long strands called chromosomes.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 16

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Fitness is the relative adaptiveness of an individual organism measured ultimately by reproductive success.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 17

Questão
Natural selection works on the variation that is known to be in the genetic makeup of populations.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 18

Questão
Gene flow is the exchange of genes among populations though interbreeding.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 19

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

Questão 20

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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.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 21

Questão
Phenotype is the chemical or physical results of genetic code.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 22

Questão
Mendelian genetics showed that inheritance does not involve the blending of substances but, rather, are particulate.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 23

Questão
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.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 24

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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.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 25

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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.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 26

Questão
Though Darwin work with pea plants the basic laws of genetics were derived.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 27

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

Questão 28

Questão
Charles Darwin reasoned, some alleles are dominant and some are recessive.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 29

Questão
Natural selection is the differential reproduction of individuals based on the relative adaptive value of their traits.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 30

Questão
Individuals tend to find mates within their own breeding populations.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 31

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

Questão 32

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Microevolution is the branching of new species from existing species.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 33

Questão
All life, through speciation and adaptive radiation, is descended from a single origin.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 34

Questão
In hybrid sterility fertilization may occur, but the hybrid zygotes do not survive.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 35

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

Questão 36

Questão
Evolutionary change is at its most basic level genetic change.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 37

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Macroevolution is the continuous transformation of a unitary population through time.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 38

Questão
Sexual behaviors that attract one sex to the other are called courtship behaviors.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 39

Questão
Genetic drift is mistakes in the genetic mechanism that add new variation to a species' gene pool.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 40

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

Questão 41

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

Questão 42

Questão
Functionally similar but evolutionary unrelated traits are known as analogies.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 43

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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.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 44

Questão
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.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 45

Questão
Homo habilis "wise person" is a recent, separate species.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 46

Questão
Based on the mitochondrial DNA evidence, Homo nenderthalensis is though to be a direct ancestor to modern humans.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 47

Questão
The fossil record indicates that an increase in brain size was the first hominid trait to evolve.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 48

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A taxonomy is a classification system based on similarities and differences.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 49

Questão
Australopithecus had overall skeletal proportions much like those of modern humans.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 50

Questão
Radiocarbon dating is a relative dating technique.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 51

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

Questão 52

Questão
Humans, chimpanzees, and bonobos have all adapted to different environmental niches.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 53

Questão
Homo habilis is the fossil find commonly referred to as "Lucy".
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 54

Questão
The following is not an absolute dating technique:
Responda
  • a. carbon 14
  • b. potassium/ Argon
  • c. stratigraphy
  • d. all of the above
  • e. a and b

Questão 55

Questão
The AR model hypothesizes that Homo sapiens
Responda
  • 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

Questão 56

Questão
The MRE origins model hypothesizes that Homo sapiens
Responda
  • a. evolved
  • b. evolved only in Africa
  • c. all of the above
  • d. none of the above

Questão 57

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

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