Liberty University BIOL 101 QUIZ 7

Liberty University BIOL 101 QUIZ 7 · Question 1 3.2 out of 3.2 points The genome of Mycoplasma genitalium is about _______ genes in size. · Question 2 3.2 out of 3.2 points Romans 8 describes modern living organisms as · Question 3 3.2 out of 3.2 points The role of the barbule in the primary flight feather is to · Question 4 3.2 out of 3.2 points Charles Darwin’s view of the species was · Question 5 3.2 out of 3.2 points Which of the following is a basic evolutionary advance needed to convert a down-like feather into a primary flight feather. · Question 6 0 out of 3.2 points One important value that disruptive selection can have to a natural population is that it Selected Answer: will remove from the population all individuals whose behavioral traits vary greatly from the populational norms. · Question 7 0 out of 3.2 points One major problem with the speculation that the origin of life occurred at geothermal vent is that Selected Answer: no one has ever seen any life forms near these geothermal vents. · Question 8 3.2 out of 3.2 points One advantage associated with viewing RNA as the original site of information storage in the primitive cell is that RNA · Question 9 3.2 out of 3.2 points Which of the following organisms were not observed by Charles Darwin while reading and voyaging the world? · Question 10 0 out of 3.2 points Directional selection has been used to Selected Answer: create many new useful genes in agriculturally important plants. · Question 11 3.2 out of 3.2 points Natural selection is an “expensive” process. This is true because · Question 12 3.2 out of 3.2 points Could RNA have been the original site of information storage in the primitive cell? A difficult problem with this possibility is that · Question 13 3.2 out of 3.2 points Which of the following represents three classes of mutations, each of which affects the evolutionary process differently? · Question 14 3.2 out of 3.2 points The Design theorist comes to the conclusion that most mutations occurring today are harmful because · Question 15 3.2 out of 3.2 points Charles Darwin believed that whole new species originated as a result of · Question 16 0 out of 3.2 points Both the theist and the naturalist come to the conclusion that most mutations occurring today are harmful because Selected Answer: background radiation levels and mutagenic chemical concentrations are higher now than previously. · Question 17 3.2 out of 3.2 points Which stage of life history implied in the early pages of the Genesis record appears least likely to involve any biological change in populations with time? · Question 18 3.2 out of 3.2 points The term _________ represents a predictive theory of how a species might change with time, whereas the term ________ assumes that nature can create whole new structures and organisms. · Question 19 3.2 out of 3.2 points Which of the following represents an observation Charles Darwin made while reading and voyaging the world? · Question 20 0 out of 3.2 points Which of the following classes of mutations accumulate silently in the DNA having no obvious effect on one’s ability to reproduce? Selected Answer: structural gene mutations · Question 21 0 out of 3.2 points In the early pages of the Genesis record, the first stage of life history could best be described as Selected Answer: the creation existing in completed form. · Question 22 3.2 out of 3.2 points During the formation of a feather which of the following structures appears as a result of early induction events within the dermal layer of the wing surface? · Question 23 3.2 out of 3.2 points Sometimes a force within the environment reduces the reproductive ability of one variety of individual in a species compared to that of another variety. This force is termed · Question 24 3.2 out of 3.2 points The potential power of directional selection cannot be demonstrated in a real population if · Question 25 3.2 out of 3.2 points Mycoplasma genitalium is well known for the _________ infections it causes.