BIOL 3301 EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
LATEST UPDATE (GRADED A+)
which of the following examples is most likely to be subject to introgression?
when two very closely related populations are able to interbreed, nut only at very low levels
the distribution of genetic diversity in the human species tells us ___________?
a small population of humans migrated out of africa somewhere around 150 thousand years ago
due to _______ and ______ human siblings that share the same parents have less than 1 in 70 trillion
chance of being genetically identical
random assortment of chromosomes
crossing over
alfred wallace said
"species do vary continuously in many directions and thus there is always material for natural selection
to act upon in some direction that may be advantageous"
thomas malthus said
"the power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for
man"
lamarck said
"all the acquisitions or losses wrought by nature on individuals, through the influence if the
environment... are preserved by reproduction to the new individuals which arise"
mendel said
"... each generation the two parental traits appear, separated and unchanged and there is nothing to
indicate that one of them has.... taken over anything from the other"
which of the following ideas directly refuted the concept of common spontaneous generation?
weismann and his work in work in germ plasm theory
modern phylogentics has replaced the aristolelian idea of_________?
the scala naturae
meiosis is the process of cellular dividion that creates gametes.
TRUE
which of the following is an example of the degeneracy of the genetic code?
the codon AAA codes for lysine, so does the codon AAG
LATEST UPDATE (GRADED A+)
which of the following examples is most likely to be subject to introgression?
when two very closely related populations are able to interbreed, nut only at very low levels
the distribution of genetic diversity in the human species tells us ___________?
a small population of humans migrated out of africa somewhere around 150 thousand years ago
due to _______ and ______ human siblings that share the same parents have less than 1 in 70 trillion
chance of being genetically identical
random assortment of chromosomes
crossing over
alfred wallace said
"species do vary continuously in many directions and thus there is always material for natural selection
to act upon in some direction that may be advantageous"
thomas malthus said
"the power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for
man"
lamarck said
"all the acquisitions or losses wrought by nature on individuals, through the influence if the
environment... are preserved by reproduction to the new individuals which arise"
mendel said
"... each generation the two parental traits appear, separated and unchanged and there is nothing to
indicate that one of them has.... taken over anything from the other"
which of the following ideas directly refuted the concept of common spontaneous generation?
weismann and his work in work in germ plasm theory
modern phylogentics has replaced the aristolelian idea of_________?
the scala naturae
meiosis is the process of cellular dividion that creates gametes.
TRUE
which of the following is an example of the degeneracy of the genetic code?
the codon AAA codes for lysine, so does the codon AAG
