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1
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Linnaeus

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Taxonomy falsification

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2
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Aristotle

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Species immutable; scala nature

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3
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Darwin

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Natural Selection

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4
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Malthus

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Limits of population growth

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5
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Lamarck

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inheritance of acquired characteristics

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6
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On the island of Daphne, major periods of drought drive the evolution ok beaks in?

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Larger

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7
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The basic unit of evolution

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Population

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8
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Genetic drift

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Random process

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The key distinguished feature of a goof scientific theory

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  • Falsifiability
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10
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A crucial component of evolutionary theory missing from Darwin’s original formulation in the 19th century?

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Mendelian genetics

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11
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consider skull size in human newborns- natural selections favor- phenotype in the population example of?

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  • Intermediate; stabilizing selection
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12
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Which statement best describes how fitness is measured by an evolutionary biologist? Fitness is measured by?

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  • Reproductive output of an individual in a population
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13
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Bones that support the wings of birds and bats are?

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  • homologous traits
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14
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The development of a hindlimb in 24-day dolphin embryo is best explained by?

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  • Adaptation environment
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15
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Darwin’s original contribution to biology?

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none of the above

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16
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Which of the following is NOT a requirement for the evolution of A trait by natural selection?

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Traits must make individuals stronger

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17
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Not consider atavism

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  • feathers on archaeopteryx
18
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Basic unit of natural selection?

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individuals

19
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Fur color in a population of rat rangers from white to gray to black. Gray rats have a higher chance of surviving to reproductive age

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  • stabilizing selection
20
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According to Cuvier the pattern of change in the fossil record suggested that

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21
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Wings of bats and wings of insects are- traits that are the products of- evolution

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Analogous converted

22
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Inferred by the chart on the right

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  • beak depth is variable and transmutable to the next generation
23
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  • The ultimate source of heritable variation in a population is
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  • mutation
24
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The main driver of evolution after a severe bottleneck event?

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genetic drift

25
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Organisms with higher fitness in an animal that lives?

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10 years and produces 100 offsprings

26
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Darwin’s theory was threatened by the dominant 19th-century theory of- suggested that should increase over time

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blending inheritance

27
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A population that contains genetically and phenotypically identical organisms will experience

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neither- evolution or natural selection

28
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Consider a population that is not hardy-Weinberg equilibrium- in this population, we can determine- frequencies by measuring- frequencies-

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Allele; genotype

29
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Frequency of the A allele

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0.50

30
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frequency of the Aa genotype

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0.50

31
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What is the expected frequency of the Aa genotype under hardy Weinberg equilibrium

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0.50

32
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Consider a cross between heterozygous individuals and a homozygous recessive individual- out of 60 offspring the expected number of homozygous recessive is-

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30

33
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Artificial selection can sometimes result in the evolution of deleterious(maladaptive) traits

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true

34
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Archeopteryx is a transitional form between fish and amphibians

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false

35
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Darwin published “the origin of species” in the 1849

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false

36
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Natural selection=Evolution

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false

37
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natural selection-survival of the fittest

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false

38
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All genetic mutations are neutral with respect to natural selection

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false

39
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Structures that have no apparent function today but had a function in ancestral species are vestigial structures

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true

40
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Out of the three modes of selection that we learned about in class, stabilizing selection is the most likely mode of selection to drive speciation (the evolution of two species form one species)

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false

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