Ant 251 Quiz #1

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In "Was Darwin Wrong?" evolutionary theory is rejected not only by fundamentalist Christians, but also by ultraorthadox jews, Islamic creationists, and some Hare Krishnas.

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True

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As reported in "Evolution in Action", when evolutionary biologists Peter and Rosemary Grant observed Galapagos Finches, they noted that:

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The Finches were evolving very rapidly

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In "Evolution in Action" trophy hunting in Alberta, Canada has resulted in:

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Smaller Rams with Smaller Horns

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Tay-Sachs disease is caused by the presence of:

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Two Recessive Genes

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The idea that fossils represent the remains of ancient creatures, now extinct or changed in form, is usually credited first to:

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Robert Hooke

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The study of the layers of rock and soil below the earths surface is called

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Stratigraphy

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Burron, Hutton and Lyell all thought geological change was fairly steady, slow and caused by everyday processes, an idea known as:

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Uniformitarianism

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The explanation of geological and biological change as the result of a series of global floods, earthquakes, volcanos and so on, is known as:

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Catastrophism

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The adaptive fitness of a mutation is based on:

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The environment in which the species lives

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The major influence on Darwin's thinking was his observation of

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Physical variation within species

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The true measure of adaprive success in natural selection is

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How many offspring are produced

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The abnormal allele for sickle cell is

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Co-dominant

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A trait that is coded for by more than one gene is called

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Polygenic

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Most human traits are

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Polygenic

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According to William R. Maples (Dead men do tell tales)

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There is a much greater need for forensic anthropologists in warmer climates than in cold ones

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Alfred Russel Wallace is known for

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Coming up with natural selection around the same time as Darwin

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Central to Mendel's ideas about inheritance was his observation that hybrids between to different members of the same species:

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Often resembled one parent and not the other

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Hemochromatosis is a condition which

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Involves the human body absorbing too much iron

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"The same script can result in different productions" Is one way of explaining:

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Epigenetics

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Humans have ________ pairs of chromosomes

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23

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This man's ideas were influenced greatly by what he observed among domestic pigeons and their breeders

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Darwin

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When you cut your finger and it heals, your cells replicate through a process called

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Mitosis

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The process of producing gametes - cells which contain only half the chromosomes of a normal cell -- is called

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Meiosis

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The specialized study of the human fossil record

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Paleoanthropology

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Archbishop James Ussher is credited with figuring the age of the earth to be about

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6,000 yrs old