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Biology 1442 Evolution & Ecology 1st
Exam University of Texas in Arlington
UTA Practice Questions and Answers
Population - Ans:✔✔-What is the unit of Evolution?
Individuals - Ans:✔✔-What is typically, but not always, the unit of selection?
Phenotype - Ans:✔✔-Genotype+Environmental Influence=?
Neutral - Ans:✔✔-Are most mutations harmful, neutral or positive?
Harmful - Ans:✔✔-Chromosomal mutations that delete, disrupt, or rearrange many loci are
harmful, neutral or positive?
Duplicated Genes - Ans:✔✔-What kind of genes can take on a new function by mutating
further?
James Hutton - Ans:✔✔-Who developed Gradulaism? (What we see is the result of a gradual
change on Earth)
Thomas Mathus - Ans:✔✔-Who wrote an essay on Principle of Population (Resources
acquisition does not go up)?
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Jean Baptist Lamarck - Ans:✔✔-Who developed up with Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics
(Totally Incorrect)
George Cuvier - Ans:✔✔-Who developed Catastrophism (Evolution happens as a result of a
catastrophe)?
Charles Lyell - Ans:✔✔-Who developed Uniformitarianism on the Principles of Geology?
Phylogeny - Ans:✔✔-What is a Tree of Life called?
Wallace's Line - Ans:✔✔-Biogeographic boundary between Asian and Australian flora and
fauna?
Peter and Rosemary Grant - Ans:✔✔-Who studied finches on the Galapagos?
Microevolution - Ans:✔✔-What is change in allele frequencies over generations?
Selection, Genetic drift, Gene flow (migration, emigration, immigration) - Ans:✔✔-What are
three main mechanisms can change allele frequency?
Mutation; Gene Duplication; Sexual Reproduction - Ans:✔✔-What are three ways we get
Genetic Variation?
Point Mutation - Ans:✔✔-What is a change in one base in a gene?
Neutral Variation - Ans:✔✔-What is it called when a mutation confers no selective advantage or
disadvantage?
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RESERVED. FIRST PUBLISH OCTOBER, 2024
Biology 1442 Evolution & Ecology 1st
Exam University of Texas in Arlington
UTA Practice Questions and Answers
Population - Ans:✔✔-What is the unit of Evolution?
Individuals - Ans:✔✔-What is typically, but not always, the unit of selection?
Phenotype - Ans:✔✔-Genotype+Environmental Influence=?
Neutral - Ans:✔✔-Are most mutations harmful, neutral or positive?
Harmful - Ans:✔✔-Chromosomal mutations that delete, disrupt, or rearrange many loci are
harmful, neutral or positive?
Duplicated Genes - Ans:✔✔-What kind of genes can take on a new function by mutating
further?
James Hutton - Ans:✔✔-Who developed Gradulaism? (What we see is the result of a gradual
change on Earth)
Thomas Mathus - Ans:✔✔-Who wrote an essay on Principle of Population (Resources
acquisition does not go up)?
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, GRACEAMELIA 2024/2025 ACADEMIC YEAR ©2024. ALL RIGHTS
RESERVED. FIRST PUBLISH OCTOBER, 2024
Jean Baptist Lamarck - Ans:✔✔-Who developed up with Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics
(Totally Incorrect)
George Cuvier - Ans:✔✔-Who developed Catastrophism (Evolution happens as a result of a
catastrophe)?
Charles Lyell - Ans:✔✔-Who developed Uniformitarianism on the Principles of Geology?
Phylogeny - Ans:✔✔-What is a Tree of Life called?
Wallace's Line - Ans:✔✔-Biogeographic boundary between Asian and Australian flora and
fauna?
Peter and Rosemary Grant - Ans:✔✔-Who studied finches on the Galapagos?
Microevolution - Ans:✔✔-What is change in allele frequencies over generations?
Selection, Genetic drift, Gene flow (migration, emigration, immigration) - Ans:✔✔-What are
three main mechanisms can change allele frequency?
Mutation; Gene Duplication; Sexual Reproduction - Ans:✔✔-What are three ways we get
Genetic Variation?
Point Mutation - Ans:✔✔-What is a change in one base in a gene?
Neutral Variation - Ans:✔✔-What is it called when a mutation confers no selective advantage or
disadvantage?
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