BIOL 1407 LONESTAR EXAM 1
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Evolution - Correct Answers -descent with modification
Carolus Linnaeus - Correct Answers -Founder of taxonomy
Georges Cuvier - Correct Answers -paleontologist who influenced Darwin
James Hutton and Charles Lyell - Correct Answers -Geologists that influenced Darwin
Lamarck's Theory - Correct Answers -Species evolve through use/disuse of body parts
natural selection - Correct Answers -mechanism of descent with modification
three broad observations - Correct Answers -Unity of Life, Diversity of Life, Match
between Organisms and Environment
Homology - Correct Answers -similarity resulting from common ancestry
vestigial structures - Correct Answers -remnants of features that served important
functions in ancestors but is now unneeded
Convergent Evolution - Correct Answers -evolution of analogous features in distantly
related groups due to similarity of environments
biological species concept - Correct Answers -a species is a group of populations
whose members can interbreed and produce fertile offspring
Reproductive isolation - Correct Answers -biological barriers that impede two species
from producing fertile offspring
prezygotic barrier - Correct Answers -block fertilization by impeding or preventing
mating or hindering fertilization
phylogeny - Correct Answers -study of evolutionary history of a species or group of
closely related species
taxon - Correct Answers -taxonomic unit at any level of the heirarchy
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Evolution - Correct Answers -descent with modification
Carolus Linnaeus - Correct Answers -Founder of taxonomy
Georges Cuvier - Correct Answers -paleontologist who influenced Darwin
James Hutton and Charles Lyell - Correct Answers -Geologists that influenced Darwin
Lamarck's Theory - Correct Answers -Species evolve through use/disuse of body parts
natural selection - Correct Answers -mechanism of descent with modification
three broad observations - Correct Answers -Unity of Life, Diversity of Life, Match
between Organisms and Environment
Homology - Correct Answers -similarity resulting from common ancestry
vestigial structures - Correct Answers -remnants of features that served important
functions in ancestors but is now unneeded
Convergent Evolution - Correct Answers -evolution of analogous features in distantly
related groups due to similarity of environments
biological species concept - Correct Answers -a species is a group of populations
whose members can interbreed and produce fertile offspring
Reproductive isolation - Correct Answers -biological barriers that impede two species
from producing fertile offspring
prezygotic barrier - Correct Answers -block fertilization by impeding or preventing
mating or hindering fertilization
phylogeny - Correct Answers -study of evolutionary history of a species or group of
closely related species
taxon - Correct Answers -taxonomic unit at any level of the heirarchy
