BIOL 2600 - EVOLUTION EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS VERIFIED
Diversity of life includes
Macroevolution and Biodiversity
who was the first to present a complete theory of evolution by natural selection
and to support that theory with an enormous body of evidence.
Darwin's- On the Origin of Species
Redi's experiment
an early example of empirical hypothesis testing using controls. maggots did not arise
through spontaneous generation
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
developed a "transformation" theory for evolutionary change in his Zoological
Philosophy.
Darwin's two fundamental insights
1. Natural selection: 'nature' selects the most successful variants
2. Ancestry: All species descended from one or a few common ancestors: new species
arise from pre-existing species
Adaptive radiation:
occurs following relatively rapid diversification from an ancestral species into multiple
new taxa
Two important differences: selective agent, and selected traits
, 1. Natural selection: 'nature' selects the most successful variants
2. All species descended from one or a few common ancestors: new species arise from
pre-existing species
William Dallinger
examined evolutionary change in temperature tolerance in protozoa
Phenotypes depends on the effects of?
both genotype and environment
what does a gene code?
a trait in the context of a particular set of environmental conditions
Genetic variation must have?
fitness consequences (which is reproductive success)
exaptations
traits were originally selected for one function but were later co-opted to serve different
selectively advantageous function
what are the three conditions of Natural selection?
1. Variation: individuals in a population differ from one another
2. Inheritance: some of these differences are transmitted from parent to offspring
3. Differential reproductive success: individuals with certain traits are more
what does Genotype produce?
norm of reaction
what are the 2 colour variants in permoyscus polionotus? (mice)
The darker inland form
The lighter beach-dwelling
WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS VERIFIED
Diversity of life includes
Macroevolution and Biodiversity
who was the first to present a complete theory of evolution by natural selection
and to support that theory with an enormous body of evidence.
Darwin's- On the Origin of Species
Redi's experiment
an early example of empirical hypothesis testing using controls. maggots did not arise
through spontaneous generation
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
developed a "transformation" theory for evolutionary change in his Zoological
Philosophy.
Darwin's two fundamental insights
1. Natural selection: 'nature' selects the most successful variants
2. Ancestry: All species descended from one or a few common ancestors: new species
arise from pre-existing species
Adaptive radiation:
occurs following relatively rapid diversification from an ancestral species into multiple
new taxa
Two important differences: selective agent, and selected traits
, 1. Natural selection: 'nature' selects the most successful variants
2. All species descended from one or a few common ancestors: new species arise from
pre-existing species
William Dallinger
examined evolutionary change in temperature tolerance in protozoa
Phenotypes depends on the effects of?
both genotype and environment
what does a gene code?
a trait in the context of a particular set of environmental conditions
Genetic variation must have?
fitness consequences (which is reproductive success)
exaptations
traits were originally selected for one function but were later co-opted to serve different
selectively advantageous function
what are the three conditions of Natural selection?
1. Variation: individuals in a population differ from one another
2. Inheritance: some of these differences are transmitted from parent to offspring
3. Differential reproductive success: individuals with certain traits are more
what does Genotype produce?
norm of reaction
what are the 2 colour variants in permoyscus polionotus? (mice)
The darker inland form
The lighter beach-dwelling
