Bio 358 Test #1 Questions With Complete Solutions
An important element of human self understanding is
comprehension of our place in the larger universe. One part of
this story is the number of other species like us there might be in
our galaxy. There are about 100,000,000,000 stars in our galaxy.
in view of this large number of possible solar systems, which is
the beest est of the number of other highly complex (human-
like) species in the galaxy Correct Answers -0
An organism reproduces as in the two preceding questions and
generates two offspring. How likely is it that copy of a particular
piece of design information in one of those offspring is also
present in the other Correct Answers -50%
An utterly remarkable fact about our world is that something as
complex as a cheetah streaking across the African savanna is
nevertheless a fully chemical system. This seems impossible to
our intuition. We saw how our intuition could mislead us when
we loooked more carefully into the structure of an animal like a
cheetah or a human being. Which of the follow is the most
complete and accurate description of the lesson we learned from
this examination? Correct Answers Animals are simpler than
they appear because they consist of only a few organ systems
each made from a few organs, each made from a few tiissues,
each made from a few distinct cell types, each cell consisting of
a few organelles and each organelle consisting of a few types of
molecules ß
Aniimals will evolve to behave if they have a confluence of
interest with animals that share genetic design info they both
,inherit from recent common ancestors. Genetic relatedness is the
tech term for this fraction of commonly inherited design info.
What best describes the genetic relatedness of siblings, half
siblings first counsins Correct Answers -50, 25, 12.5, 3.125
Any new phenomenon or level of complexity always emerges
from... Correct Answers -a small subset of the properties of the
level of complexity immediately below.
Based on the law Lancesters law what is the factor for two cases
in which 4 individuals attack 1 and 8 individuals attack 1
Correct Answers 16 and 64
Competitive parsimony Correct Answers -when two mutually
exclusive explanations for a phenomenon neither of which we
can rigorously falsify
-we evaluate these alternatives based on their relative predictive
power.
-a theory that predicts much more than its competitor is much
more likely to be right
conflict of interest problem Correct Answers -between
memebers of the same species in a malthusian world
Cryptic variation Correct Answers -the property that it is
invisible most of the time, becoming visible only in rate
individuals where the right combo of pieces of cryptic variation
are produced by the processes of recombination in sexual
reproduction
deign info Correct Answers -source
, design info is replicated by staightforward... Correct Answers -
chemiical processes
DNA Correct Answers -hydrogen bonds
-C
-A
-G
-T
-A-T
-G-C
Each of us was produced by the design info wee inherited from
out parents at conception. each set of design info (fathers)
contains about 100,000,000,000 (or 10^11)atoms. of these
atoms, what is the probably the best est of the number that is still
present in our adult bodies today Correct Answers -10^0
Example of combinatorial coding system Correct Answers -the
alphabet
-telephone numbers
-genetic design info
Genes play an important role in the indivvidual development of
the animal. they encode the info that permits the animal to be
built. An important question for us is the logic whereby genes
evolve over long periods of time. what is the underlying logic of
genetic evolution Correct Answers -genes evolve individually
to shape the organisms in ways that give each isolated gene the
beest chance to replicate at each generation
An important element of human self understanding is
comprehension of our place in the larger universe. One part of
this story is the number of other species like us there might be in
our galaxy. There are about 100,000,000,000 stars in our galaxy.
in view of this large number of possible solar systems, which is
the beest est of the number of other highly complex (human-
like) species in the galaxy Correct Answers -0
An organism reproduces as in the two preceding questions and
generates two offspring. How likely is it that copy of a particular
piece of design information in one of those offspring is also
present in the other Correct Answers -50%
An utterly remarkable fact about our world is that something as
complex as a cheetah streaking across the African savanna is
nevertheless a fully chemical system. This seems impossible to
our intuition. We saw how our intuition could mislead us when
we loooked more carefully into the structure of an animal like a
cheetah or a human being. Which of the follow is the most
complete and accurate description of the lesson we learned from
this examination? Correct Answers Animals are simpler than
they appear because they consist of only a few organ systems
each made from a few organs, each made from a few tiissues,
each made from a few distinct cell types, each cell consisting of
a few organelles and each organelle consisting of a few types of
molecules ß
Aniimals will evolve to behave if they have a confluence of
interest with animals that share genetic design info they both
,inherit from recent common ancestors. Genetic relatedness is the
tech term for this fraction of commonly inherited design info.
What best describes the genetic relatedness of siblings, half
siblings first counsins Correct Answers -50, 25, 12.5, 3.125
Any new phenomenon or level of complexity always emerges
from... Correct Answers -a small subset of the properties of the
level of complexity immediately below.
Based on the law Lancesters law what is the factor for two cases
in which 4 individuals attack 1 and 8 individuals attack 1
Correct Answers 16 and 64
Competitive parsimony Correct Answers -when two mutually
exclusive explanations for a phenomenon neither of which we
can rigorously falsify
-we evaluate these alternatives based on their relative predictive
power.
-a theory that predicts much more than its competitor is much
more likely to be right
conflict of interest problem Correct Answers -between
memebers of the same species in a malthusian world
Cryptic variation Correct Answers -the property that it is
invisible most of the time, becoming visible only in rate
individuals where the right combo of pieces of cryptic variation
are produced by the processes of recombination in sexual
reproduction
deign info Correct Answers -source
, design info is replicated by staightforward... Correct Answers -
chemiical processes
DNA Correct Answers -hydrogen bonds
-C
-A
-G
-T
-A-T
-G-C
Each of us was produced by the design info wee inherited from
out parents at conception. each set of design info (fathers)
contains about 100,000,000,000 (or 10^11)atoms. of these
atoms, what is the probably the best est of the number that is still
present in our adult bodies today Correct Answers -10^0
Example of combinatorial coding system Correct Answers -the
alphabet
-telephone numbers
-genetic design info
Genes play an important role in the indivvidual development of
the animal. they encode the info that permits the animal to be
built. An important question for us is the logic whereby genes
evolve over long periods of time. what is the underlying logic of
genetic evolution Correct Answers -genes evolve individually
to shape the organisms in ways that give each isolated gene the
beest chance to replicate at each generation
