BIO 182 ASU EXAM 1 | WITH
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH
VERIFIED SOLUTIONS 100% CORRECT |
RATED A+ | 2025 NEW UPDATE.
Key Point 1
True or False #1: Biodiversity on Earth will likely decrease in the near future.
ANSWER: ✔✔ True! Fingerprints of human activity, spread of invasive species, rapid change
and global climate, habitat destruction, deforestation.
What are the Three World Views?
ANSWER: ✔✔ 1. Natural Evolution - Evolution by natural processes
2. Theistic Evolution - Evolution guided by God
3. Creation - Species created by God
True or False #3: Scientists believe in Evolution even though they currently lack evidence
for the theory.
ANSWER: ✔✔ False! Based on known mechanisms: Natural Selection, Mutation, and Genetic
Drift.
Key Point 2
Why do biologists accept evolutionary theory?
ANSWER: ✔✔ Because its predictions match observations.
True or False #4: Extreme temperatures of 2015 are sufficient evidence to conclude that
Earth is warming.
ANSWER: ✔✔ False! Not enough data to show a trend.
, Key Point 3
When something varies over space and time, what must one do to quantify effects
accurately?
ANSWER: ✔✔ Compare sufficient samples.
What does replicating observations do?
ANSWER: ✔✔ Increases reliability of pattern.
What does controlling conditions do?
ANSWER: ✔✔ Isolates effects of certain factors.
What does randomizing subjects do?
ANSWER: ✔✔ Decreases risk of bias from uncontrolled factors.
What is Creationism and Catastrophism?
ANSWER: ✔✔ All species created in six days, Earth is 6,000 years old, species fixed,
extinctions from catastrophe. Leading biologist/paleontologist who championed this was
Georges Cuvier (1769-1832).
True or False #5: Darwin's worldview when leaving England would best be described as
Creationism.
ANSWER: ✔✔ True! Creationism was the dominant worldview at his place and time, and he
was studying for religious life.
What did Charles Lyell contribute to science in the context of Darwinian Evolution?
ANSWER: ✔✔ He believed in old earth ideologies and slow, gradual change (Old Earth theory
- billions of years old).
What do Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, and Alfred Wallace have in common?
ANSWER: ✔✔ They all believed in natural selection and developed theories about it.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH
VERIFIED SOLUTIONS 100% CORRECT |
RATED A+ | 2025 NEW UPDATE.
Key Point 1
True or False #1: Biodiversity on Earth will likely decrease in the near future.
ANSWER: ✔✔ True! Fingerprints of human activity, spread of invasive species, rapid change
and global climate, habitat destruction, deforestation.
What are the Three World Views?
ANSWER: ✔✔ 1. Natural Evolution - Evolution by natural processes
2. Theistic Evolution - Evolution guided by God
3. Creation - Species created by God
True or False #3: Scientists believe in Evolution even though they currently lack evidence
for the theory.
ANSWER: ✔✔ False! Based on known mechanisms: Natural Selection, Mutation, and Genetic
Drift.
Key Point 2
Why do biologists accept evolutionary theory?
ANSWER: ✔✔ Because its predictions match observations.
True or False #4: Extreme temperatures of 2015 are sufficient evidence to conclude that
Earth is warming.
ANSWER: ✔✔ False! Not enough data to show a trend.
, Key Point 3
When something varies over space and time, what must one do to quantify effects
accurately?
ANSWER: ✔✔ Compare sufficient samples.
What does replicating observations do?
ANSWER: ✔✔ Increases reliability of pattern.
What does controlling conditions do?
ANSWER: ✔✔ Isolates effects of certain factors.
What does randomizing subjects do?
ANSWER: ✔✔ Decreases risk of bias from uncontrolled factors.
What is Creationism and Catastrophism?
ANSWER: ✔✔ All species created in six days, Earth is 6,000 years old, species fixed,
extinctions from catastrophe. Leading biologist/paleontologist who championed this was
Georges Cuvier (1769-1832).
True or False #5: Darwin's worldview when leaving England would best be described as
Creationism.
ANSWER: ✔✔ True! Creationism was the dominant worldview at his place and time, and he
was studying for religious life.
What did Charles Lyell contribute to science in the context of Darwinian Evolution?
ANSWER: ✔✔ He believed in old earth ideologies and slow, gradual change (Old Earth theory
- billions of years old).
What do Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, and Alfred Wallace have in common?
ANSWER: ✔✔ They all believed in natural selection and developed theories about it.
