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Evolution/Ecology Final Exam
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Biology
Undergraduate 2
04/24/2012

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What is the simplest definition of evolution?
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Descent with modification
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The textbook gives emphasis to the theory of evolution by referring to it as what?
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The core theme of biology
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Who said the following statement?

"The convergence... of results of studies undertaken independently from eachother constitutes in itself a significant arguement in favour of this theory"

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Pope John Paul the Second
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Which major mechanism of evolution is defined as differential reproductive success?
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Natural selection
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What's something Darwinian evolution must include?
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Inherited variation
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Significant changes in beak size of the medium ground finch involved what?
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Major extremes in climate
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What can be said about the breeds of dogs?
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  • Capable of interbreeding
  • Descended from wolves
  • Products of artificial selection
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The record in the rocks reveals that contemporary forms should be most similar to fossils in what?
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Younger rocks
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Species in the same genus on the Galapagos islands are most closely related to what?
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Species of the same genus on that island or nearby islands
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What type of rock are fossils most often found in?
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Sedimentary
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Certain whale fossils have a type of ankle bone that is unique to a group of land mammals that have what?
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Hoofs
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What can be said about homologous structures?
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Evolutionarily related
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"Ontogeny recaptulates phylogeny" is a phrase that supports the evolutionary kinship from the comparative study of what?
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Embryoes
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The spurs on each side of the rubber boa are examples of structures that are what?
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Vestigial
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Separate creation, but opportunity for evolution characterizes what?
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Transformism
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Who was the naturalist who felt divinely inspired to classify God's creatures?
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Linnaeus
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The "scale of nature" to order all of life's creatures was proposed by who?
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Aristotle
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Superimposed layers of rock where most fossils are formed are called what?
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Strata
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Cuvier explained changes in organic form observed in layers of fossilized rocks by advocating what?
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Catastrophism
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The theory of gradualism that explained Earth's geological features was proposed by who?
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Hutton
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A contemporary of Darwin who wrote about geology and promoted the idea of uniform geological processes was who?
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Lyell
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What's the genus of the wooly mammoth?
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Mammuthus
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What's an inference based on Darwin's theory of natural selection?
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Struggle for existence
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Who was the evolutionary botanist that was one of the architects of the modern synthesis?
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Stebbins
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What is the frequency of p and q reffered to as?
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Allelic frequency
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The Hardy-Weinberg equillibrium theory describes a population's genetic structure that is what?
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Nonevolving
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If a population is in Hardy Weinberg, what's the equation to determine expected genotypic frequencies?
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(p+q)2=1
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Some toads commonly mate with individuals of the same size and striping. What is this as example of?
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Assortitive mating
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What is the mechanism of microevolution that may lead to the fixation of an allele?
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Genetic drift
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What is an example of a species that has undergone extreme bottle necking?
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Northern elephant seals
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A patchy environment favors which mode of natural selection?
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Diversifying
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Variation in clones of snails is maintained in a population as a result of frequency-dependent selection
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Resistence to malaria is an example of what?
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Heterozygote advantage
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What does natural selection do?
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Edits preexisting variation
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Who was the originator of the biological concept of species?
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Mayr
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Species of genus Rana may hybridize but zygotes generally do not develop. What is the RIM?
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Reduced hybrid viability
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The western striped skunk mates in late summer but the eastern striped skunk mates in late winter. What is the RIM?
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Temporal
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The shows and sounds of the frigate birds of the Galapagos are examples of what type of RIM?
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Behavioral
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One species lives cheifly on the high slopes of a mountain whereas a different but closely related species lives on the lower slopes. What is the RIM?
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Habitat
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In the formation of an allopolyploid as a new species, the reproductive barrier that must be overcome in the F1 hybrid is what?
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Hybrid sterility
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A creeping glacier that may gradually divide a population and block gene flow is an example of a mode of speciation called what?
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Allopatric
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Harris's antelope squirrel and the white-tailed antelope squirrel are 2 species that became insolated and diverged in different regions of where?
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Grand Canyon
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In order to have effective meiosis, what must there be?
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Paired chromosomes
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Which species concept has been most widely used in fossil taxonomy?
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Morphological
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Cichlid fishes in Lake Tanganyika have speciated as a result of what?
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Assortitive Mating
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Species that have hbridized to the extent to produce F2 hybrids which are frail and have reduced fertility are reproductively isolated by what?
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Hybrid breakdown
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Punctuated equilibrium supports what speciation pattern?
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Cladogenesis
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The co-opting of a structure for a function different from its original intent is referred to as what?
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Exaptation
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The 2nd duplication of Hox genes is considered to have allowed for the evolution of what in vertebrates?
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Jaws
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Gills in sexually mature adults is a phenomenon referred to as what?
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Paedomorphosis
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The shorter digits and more extensive webbing of tree-dwelling salamanders is the result of the phenomenon known as what?
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Heterochrony
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What are fossils such as footprints that show where a dinosaur once roamed known as?
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Trace fossils
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Fossils that are less than 50,000 years old could be dated most readily by what?
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Carbon
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Which time period had diversification of the early vascular plants?
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Silurian
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Where can volcanoes occur?
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At a subduction zone
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When was the supercontinent Pangaea formed?
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Near the end of the Paleozoic era
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When did colonization of the land by fungi, nonvascular plants and early arthropods occur?
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Ordovician period
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Matching fossils or Triassic reptiles in West Africa and Brazil can be explained by which large land mass during the early Mesozoic era?
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Gondwanaland
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The origin of most modern animal phyla occured during this explosion in what period?
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Cambrian
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The diversification of bony fishes occurred during what period?
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Devonian
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Extensive forests of lower vascular plants dominated the land during which period?
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Carboniferous
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90% of marine animals became extinct as well as a significant crash of terrestrial life during which late Paleozoic period?
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Permian
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When was the "Age of Angiosperms" and the "Age of Mammals"? 
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Cenozoic period
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The radiation of dinosaurs began with a flourish of speciation during which period?
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Triassic
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Which 2 periods did dinosaurs rule the earth?
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Jurassic-Cretaceous
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When did most dinosaur lineages abruptly end?
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Cretaceous
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When was the radiation of mammals, birds and pollinating insects?
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Paleocene
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In cladistic terminology, what is an ancestral/primitive characteristic?
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Pleisiomorphy
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A taxon that includes an ancestor but only part of its descendants is what?
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Paraphyletic
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What is the same evolutionary event that results from different ancestors in a cladogram?
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Parallelism
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