Possible Final Questions

Question 1

1. Interpreting geographical distribution based primarily on genetic analysis is___

Answer 1

phylogeography

Question 2

2. ____ is not a type of tectonic activity

Answer 2

Climate change

Question 3

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

Answer 3

Disharmony

Question 4

4. Long-distance dispersal is also referred to _____ dispersal

Answer 4

Waif

Question 5

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

Answer 5

Sweepstakes

Question 6

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

Answer 6

Panamanian

Question 7

7. ___ is part of the Neotropical geographic region.

Answer 7

South America

Question 8

8. Ecological Biogeography describes ____ aspects of geographic distributional patterns.

Answer 8

Modern

Question 9

9. Plate tectonics is another term used to describe movements associated with ______.

Answer 9

Mountain Building

Question 10

10. Young Earth Creationists believe that the earth is only about _____ years old.

Answer 10

6,000

Question 11

11. Ontogeny refers to _______

Answer 11

Embryonic development

Question 12

12. Remnants of past life are _____

Answer 12

Fossils

Question 13

13. A(n) _____ connects otherwise separated landmasses

Answer 13

Land Bridge

Question 14

14. Australia is part of Schmidt’s Notogaea biogeographic ______.

Answer 14

Realm

Question 15

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

Answer 15

Vicariance

Question 16

16. Biogeographic lines are borders between the biota of biogeographic regions.

Answer 16

True

Question 17

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

Answer 17

True

Question 18

18. An archipelago is a chain of oceanic islands

Answer 18

True

Question 19

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

Answer 19

True

Question 20

20. Stochastic refers to a random (chance) event.

Answer 20

True

Question 21

21. Microevolution is gene frequency changes in population traits already present.

Answer 21

True

Question 22

22. Speciation is only caused by natural selection.

Answer 22

False

Question 23

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

Answer 23

True

Question 24

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

Answer 24

True

Question 25

25. The homeodomain contains only point genetic mutations.

Answer 25

False

Question 26

26. Homologous chromosomes contain genes for the same traits.

Answer 26

False

Question 27

27. Ontogeny refers to mountain building.

Answer 27

False

Question 28

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

Answer 28

False

Question 29

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

Answer 29

True

Question 30

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

Answer 30

False

Question 31

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

Answer 31

False

Question 32

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

Answer 32

False

Question 33

33. Regulatory DNA contains the Hox genes.

Answer 33

True

Question 34

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

Answer 34

True

Question 35

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

Answer 35

False

Question 36

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

Answer 36

True

Question 37

37. Carl Ernst von Baer formulated the Biogenetic Law.

Answer 37

False

Question 38

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

Answer 38

False

Question 39

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

Answer 39

False

Question 40

40. There is no Oceanian Realm in Holts's (2013) biogeographic classification.

Answer 40

False

Question 41

41. Another name for Anagenesis is _____.

Answer 41

Phyletic Speciation

Question 42

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

Answer 42

Share

Question 43

43. Waif dispersal refers to ______ dispersal

Answer 43

Long Distance

Question 44

44. The Afrotropical Realm contains ________.

Answer 44

Sub-Saharan Africa

Question 45

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

Answer 45

Autochthonous

Question 46

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

Answer 46

Macroevolution

Question 47

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

Answer 47

Theistic

Question 48

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

Answer 48

Vitamin C

Question 49

49. Early biblical scholars related fossils to extinctions associated with ______.

Answer 49

Noah's Flood

Question 50

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

Answer 50

Radioactive Decay

Question 51

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

Answer 51

Node

Question 52

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

Answer 52

False

Question 53

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

Answer 53

Intergrades

Question 54

*4. Microevolution usually produces new species

Answer 54

False

Question 55

*5. ____ Natural Selection leads to microevolution.

Answer 55

Directional