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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A strength
B age at death
C aggressiveness
D reproductive success
Question #2
A address.
B chromosome.
C locus.
D nucleus.
Question #3
A heterozygous, with one dominant and one recessive allele.
B haplozygous.
C homozygous with two dominant alleles.
D homozygous with two recessive alleles.
Question #4
A It decreases variation.
B It increases variation.
C It does not affect variation.
D It both increases and decreases variation.
Question #5
A disruptive
B directional
C balancing
D stabilizing
Question #6
A meiosis
B recombination
C translation
D mitosis
Question #7
A but the nuclear DNA itself is inactive in all but the reproductive cells.
B but each has a different set of DNA.
C containing exactly one half of the organism’s DNA.
D each containing a full copy of the organism’s DNA.
Question #8
A Mitosis involves one DNA replication followed by two cell divisions.
B Mitosis results in identical copies of the parent cell.
C Mitosis ultimately results in a reduced number of chromosomes.
D Mitosis results in haploid cells.
Question #9
A is likely to recombine during crossovers.
B comes from one parent only.
C does not pass on for many generations.
D is not likely to recombine during crossovers.
Question #10
A determines how evolved the organism is (potatoes have only five, but camels have seventy).
B reduces over the animal’s lifetime, causing aging.
C varies between body cells (e.g., liver cells have more than intestinal cells).
D is the same in every cell with a nucleus; it is homoplasmic.
Question #11
A outside of the cell’s nucleus; passed on from the father to all his offspring
B in the cell’s “powerhouse”; passed on from the mother to all her offspring
C in the nucleus; inherited from mother to daughter only
D in prokaryotic cells; found only in females
Question #12
A subject to increased rates of genetic mutation.
B a locally extinct species.
C native to a particular region.
D invasive to a particular region or habitat.
Question #13
A infraorder Anthropoidea
B suborder Haplorhini
C parvorder Catarrhini
D superfamily Hominoidea
Question #14
A genetic drift.
B new mutations.
C gene flow.
D natural selection.
Question #15
A Georges Cuvier
B Robert Hooke
C John Ray
D Carolus Linnaeus
Question #16
A supports the theory of catastrophism.
B provides the primary evidence that the earth is 4.4 billion years old.
C proves that most changes to Earth were caused by earthquakes and floods.
D requires the assumption that any geological process observed today worked the same way in the past.
Question #17
A species adapt and change over time based on the environment.
B individuals determine their own biological adaptations.
C species adapt based on individual goals.
D an individual can change within its own lifetime.
Question #18
A a statement that concerns scientific facts assumed to be true
B a testable statement that could potentially explain specific phenomena observed in the natural world
C a statement unable to be refuted by future investigations
D a synonym for theory
Question #19
A nonhoning chewing
B complex material culture
C dependence on domesticated food
D bipedalism
Question #20
A focus their work on skeletal analysis of individuals.
B study the evolution of human skeletal traits.
C focus their skeletal analysis on early hominins.
D study skeletal remains from past human populations.
Question #21
A linguistic comprehension.
B subsistence strategies.
C material culture.
D ideology.
Question #22
A Hunting strategies were developed to include other animals as bait.
B Hunting was always well planned, often using a diagram.
C Females led hunting, but all adults were involved.
D Hunting was conducted with stone tools and cooperative strategies.
Question #23
A We can learn that consuming the wrong foods over time does little to population health.
B We can learn that human physiology does not change through time.
C We can learn that lifestyles do not change over time.
D We can learn that diets, and therefore human biology, change through time.