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1
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  1. Interpreting geographical distribution based primarily on genetic analysis is___
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phylogeography

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  1. ____ is not a type of tectonic activity
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Climate change

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  1. Conditions in sister areas where a difference in numbers of species exists refers to ___
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Disharmony

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  1. Long-distance dispersal is also referred to _____ dispersal
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Waif

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  1. A type of long-distance dispersal that is a stochastic (random) process is ____ dispersal
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Sweepstakes

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  1. According to Holt, tropical Mexico is part of the _______ geographic region
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Panamanian

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  1. ___ is part of the Neotropical geographic region.
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South America

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  1. Ecological Biogeography describes ____ aspects of geographic distributional patterns.
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Modern

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  1. Plate tectonics is another term used to describe movements associated with ______.
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Mountain Building

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  1. Young Earth Creationists believe that the earth is only about _____ years old.
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6,000

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  1. Ontogeny refers to _______
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Embryonic development

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  1. Remnants of past life are _____
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Fossils

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  1. A(n) _____ connects otherwise separated landmasses
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Land Bridge

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  1. Australia is part of Schmidt’s Notogaea biogeographic ______.
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Realm

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  1. Which type of biogeographic theory refers to passive movements of landforms on its tectonic plates?
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Vicariance

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  1. Biogeographic lines are borders between the biota of biogeographic regions.
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True

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  1. Nearctic of Wallace’s Biogeographic Regions includes arctic North America.
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True

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  1. An archipelago is a chain of oceanic islands
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True

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  1. Anagenesis refers to a species evolving into another without a genetic split.
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True

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  1. Stochastic refers to a random (chance) event.
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True

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  1. Microevolution is gene frequency changes in population traits already present.
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True

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22
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  1. Speciation is only caused by natural selection.
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False

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23
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  1. Young Earth Creationists believe that the Earth is not as old as science predicts.
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True

24
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  1. Old Earth Creations believe evolution produced biodiversity as is shown today.
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True

25
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  1. The homeodomain contains only point genetic mutations.
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False

26
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  1. Homologous chromosomes contain genes for the same traits.
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False

27
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  1. Ontogeny refers to mountain building.
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False

28
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  1. Fossil superposition would show older ones being placed above newer ones.
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False

29
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  1. Vestigial structures are normally found in all members of a species.
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True

30
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  1. Atavisms are normally found in all members of a species.
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False

31
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  1. Pseudogenes function in all members of a population but not in sister species.
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False

32
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  1. Embryos of different groups in a lineage show adult stages in their sequences.
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False

33
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  1. Regulatory DNA contains the Hox genes.
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True

34
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  1. Polyploid organisms have more than two full sets of homologous chromosomes.
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True

35
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  1. Neutral mutations normally cause a harmful effect on an organism.
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False

36
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  1. A point mutation can lead to the expression of a new allele and its phenotype.
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True

37
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  1. Carl Ernst von Baer formulated the Biogenetic Law.
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False

38
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  1. Speciation is genetic mixing of gene pools when producing new species.
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False

39
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  1. The Nearctic Realm in provincialism handout contains arctic North America.
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False

40
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  1. There is no Oceanian Realm in Holts’s (2013) biogeographic classification.
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False

41
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  1. Another name for Anagenesis is _____.
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Phyletic Speciation

42
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  1. Vicariance produces allopatric areas of endemism that ____ an ancestral community
A

Share

43
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  1. Waif dispersal refers to ______ dispersal
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Long Distance

44
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  1. The Afrotropical Realm contains ________.
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Sub-Saharan Africa

45
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  1. Where an organismal group evolved in situ from a unique ancestor is called an _____ area.
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Autochthonous

46
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  1. ____ is the formation of new traits or conditions of traits in a population.
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Macroevolution

47
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  1. Old Earth Creationists’ belief that an intelligent creator produced biodiversity is called _____ Evolution.
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Theistic

48
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  1. The loss of the ability to produce ____ causes a condition referred to as scurvy
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Vitamin C

49
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  1. Early biblical scholars related fossils to extinctions associated with ______.
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Noah’s Flood

50
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  1. Since 1945, science has been able to date landforms using rates found in ________.
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Radioactive Decay

51
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*1. The ___ on a phylogeny indicates where gene pools are split.

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Node

52
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*2. Bioevolution has no empirical evidence to support its ideas.

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False

53
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*3. The offspring between different variants of the same species are:

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Intergrades

54
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*4. Microevolution usually produces new species

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False

55
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*5. ____ Natural Selection leads to microevolution.

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Directional

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