Final Exam

Question 1

Aristotle taught that species cannot change or adapt to the environment.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

The Bible teaches that species cannot change or adapt.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

The Bible teaches that change in organisms is limited to its unique kind.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Biblical kind and scientific species are the same.

Answer 4

False

Question 5

If scientists do not know the function of a particular body part (vestigial organs) then it has no function.

Answer 5

False

Question 6

Scholars in the early part of the 19th century had a Biblical view of species.

Answer 6

False

Question 7

The place Darwin visited on his trip around the world that had the greatest impact on his thinking was

Answer 7

The Galapagos Islands

Question 8

George Cuvier was a strong proponent of the theory of

Answer 8

Catastrophism

Question 9

Which of the following statements is NOT true concerning Lamarck’s theory of inheritance of acquired characteristics?

Answer 9

Nature selects the best adapted individuals to survive and reproduce (natural selection).

Question 10

Darwin was influenced by which of the following concepts attributable to Charles Lyell?

Answer 10

The geologic forces in Earth’s history show predictable uniformity.

Question 11

According to Darwin, natural selection is based not the _____ found in populations.

Answer 11

Variations

Question 12

Thomas Malthus proposed that

Answer 12

the population may multiplied faster than the food supply.

Question 13

Evolutionists postulate that fossils were formed by a slow process.

Answer 13

True

Question 14

If a fish dies and sinks to the bottom of a lake it will remain intact for hundreds of years while it is covered with sediment and becomes fossilized.

Answer 14

False

Question 15

The current theory of the slow process of fossilization is adequate to explain the abundance of fossilized excrement.

Answer 15

False

Question 16

The only way sedimentary fossils can be formed is by an extensive flood.

Answer 16

True

Question 17

The current discovery of moist tissue in dinosaurs can be explained by the current evolutionary model of fossil formation.

Answer 17

False

Question 18

Radiometric dating is an exact science and always gives precise answers.

Answer 18

False

Question 19

The assumption of the original composition of a rock be tested by radiometric dating cannot be tested.

Answer 19

True

Question 20

The fossil record is full of intermediate species (missing links) that demonstrate an evolutionary sequence.

Answer 20

False

Question 21

The Nebraska man was constructed from the tooth of an extinct pig.

Answer 21

True

Question 22

Ramapithecus was constructed from the bones of an orangutan.

Answer 22

True

Question 23

The chicken wing and the bat wing are considered homologous structures.

Answer 23

True

Question 24

The bat wing and the butterfly wing are considered homologous structured.

Answer 24

False

Question 25

A stem mammal is a fictitious animal.

Answer 25

True

Question 26

Similarity in the design of animal limbs can be evidence for a common creator.

Answer 26

True

Question 27

Which of the following can be directly changed by natural selection?

Answer 27

Populations

Question 28

New variations of genes in a population may be produced by

Answer 28

All of the above

Question 29

The person credited with being the co-discoverer of the theory of natural selection was

Answer 29

Alfred Wallace

Question 30

Which is the original source of new alleles within a population?

Answer 30

Mutation

Question 31

The peppered moth example does not illustrate or prove the following

Answer 31

Macroevolution

Question 32

Directional selection menas that

Answer 32

the organisms on one extreme of the population have a better chance to survive than those on the other extreme.

Question 33

An insect that exhibits resistance to a pesticide

Answer 33

Inherited genes that made it resistant to the pesticide

Question 34

The peppered moth illustration demonstrates the following:

Answer 34

The environment can cause change in gene frequencies

Question 35

The development of antibiotic resistance in bacteria does not illustrate or prove the following:

Answer 35

That bacterium can evolve into plants

Question 36

In an environment without warfarin the mutant mouse will have a selective advantage.

Answer 36

False

Question 37

The mutation that produced the warfarin-resistant mouse increased the amount of information in the DNA.

Answer 37

False

Question 38

Stabilizing selection means that

Answer 38

the extremes of the population have a lesser chance to survive.

Question 39

The fact that the average human birth-weight remains at about seven pounds is due to

Answer 39

the forces of stabilizing selection

Question 40

In an unchanging environment selection in a well-adapted population is usually

Answer 40

stabilizing

Question 41

In a certain bird species, clutch size (the number of eggs laid by a female in one breeding season) range from four to eight and the most frequent clutch size is six.

Answer 41

Stabilizing selection

Question 42

Disruptive selection favors

Answer 42

the extremes of a range of variation

Question 43

the introduction of a small population onto an island that results in a limited gene pool for a population best describes

Answer 43

the bottleneck effect

Question 44

The sharp reduction of the gene pool and the numbers of a population through a severe epidemic is an example of

Answer 44

the bottleneck effect

Question 45

The influence of genetic drift on allele frequencies increases as

Answer 45

both of these

Question 46

When a population goes through a bottleneck,

Answer 46

genetic drift is likely to occur.

Question 47

inbreeding in mammals increases the chance of two recessive deleterious genes coming together.

Answer 47

True

Question 48

Some organisms are easily classified as species; however, with some it is very difficult to classify.

Answer 48

True

Question 49

Mayr's definition of species easily applies to fossils.

Answer 49

False

Question 50

Reproductive isolation is necessary to maintain a pure breed dog.

Answer 50

True

Question 51

Reproductive isolation is not necessary to maintain the integrity of a species.

Answer 51

True

Question 52

If significant gene low occurs between two different species, then those species will eventually become very similar.

Answer 52

True

Question 53

If a population of birds fly to an isolated island, then they may adapt to the new environment to the extent that they may be called a new species.

Answer 53

True

Question 54

In allopatric speciation a physical barrier ends gene flow between two populations.

Answer 54

True

Question 55

Because there is no evidence for the gradualism model of macroevolution, scientists have postulated the punctuated equilibrium model.

Answer 55

True

Question 56

The punctuated equilibrium is an admission that there are not convincing intermediate links in the macroevolution model.

Answer 56

True

Question 57

Evidence for natural selection proves the existence of macroevolution.

Answer 57

False

Question 58

The development of a fish growing legs and walking is an example of macroevolution.

Answer 58

True

Question 59

For dinosaurs to evolve wings and become birds would involve that every intermediate step be a selective advantage over the previous step.

Answer 59

True

Question 60

The adaptation of the Hawaiian honeycreepers to a new niche demonstrates macroevolution.

Answer 60

False

Question 61

Most species that have ever lived are still in existence.

Answer 61

False

Question 62

Biologists agree on the mechanism of macroevolution.

Answer 62

False

Question 63

Your book calls theories of macroevolution hypotheses.

Answer 63

True

Question 64

Properties of DNA must

Answer 64

All of the above

Question 65

Sulfure is

Answer 65

Found in proteins but not nucleic acids.

Question 66

A bacteriophage is a bacterium that infects viruses

Answer 66

False

Question 67

In the pairing of two nucleotides within the double helix,

Answer 67

All of these

Question 68

From X-ray diffraction data, which of the following was determined about DNA?

Answer 68

All of these

Question 69

In the bonding of nitrogenous bases,

Answer 69

guanine is paired with cytosine

Question 70

Rosalind Franklin used which technique to determine many of the physical characteristics of DNA?

Answer 70

X-ray diffraction

Question 71

In DNA molecules,

Answer 71

the nucleotides are arrange in a linear, un-branched pattern.

Question 72

Each DNA strand has a backbone that consists of alternating

Answer 72

sugar and phosphate molecules

Question 73

A chromosome is made up of the following

Answer 73

DNA and proteins

Question 74

Histones provide organization and structure for the DNA.

Answer 74

True

Question 75

A faulty centromere region could effect chromosome separation during mitosis

Answer 75

True

Question 76

Autosomes determine the gender of the person

Answer 76

False

Question 77

Which of the following designates a normal human male?

Answer 77

XY

Question 78

A karyotype

Answer 78

is a visual display of chromosomes arranged according to size.

Question 79

DNA ligase

Answer 79

fills tiny gaps between short stretches of DNA.

Question 80

Destruction of a primer would stop DNA replication in the middle of the process.

Answer 80

False

Question 81

Primers are loosely attached to the DNA strand by covalent bonds.

Answer 81

False

Question 82

Semiconservative means that the replicated DNA contains one new strand and one old strand.

Answer 82

True

Question 83

The 5' in DNA refers to the hydrogen atoms.

Answer 83

False

Question 84

A mutation is a temporary change in the DNA molecule.

Answer 84

False

Question 85

Evolutionists would be more interested in mutations in gametes than in somatic cells,

Answer 85

True

Question 86

DNA polymerase can correct many mistakes in replication.

Answer 86

True

Question 87

A mutation in an egg will be passed not the rest of the cells of the organism.

Answer 87

True

Question 88

Carcinogenic compounds can cause mutations that disrupt the cell cycle.

Answer 88

True

Question 89

Cloning simply means an identical copy.

Answer 89

True

Question 90

Identical twins are clones.

Answer 90

True

Question 91

In cloning animals, the egg cell is stimulated to divide and form an individual by simply shocking the egg.

Answer 91

False