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29 Cards in this Set
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Do most scientists agree that spontaneous generation started life on this plant?
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NO
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In chemical evolution which of the following gases was not in the primitave atmosphere?
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D. OXYGEN
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Which of the following scientists showed us that amino acids could have been a result of the primative atmospheric conditions?
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C. MILLER
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RNA may have developed before DNA because?
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ALL OF THEM
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The chain of events that produced the first living cell couild have been which of the following sets?
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C. MICROSPHERE, MEMBRANE, PROTOCELL
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The first organisms were probably?
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D. PROKARYOTIC & ANAEROBIC
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Which indicated need of oxygen?
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C. AEROBIC
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Oxygen probably came from?
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E. PROKARYOTIC & AUTOTROPHES
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Mitochondria and Chorloplasts may have been?
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E. ALL
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Meyers defines a species as?
a. group of organisms that can breed together b. group of organisms that produce variable offspring c. both d. neither |
C.) BOTH
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Speciation can occur when 2 mechanism are met they are?
a. isolation b. divergence c. convergence d. A & B |
D.) A & B
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Of the following, which is an accepted category of speciation?
a. sympatric b. convergence c. prezygotic d. none |
A. SYMPATRIC
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What is the difference between pre and postzygotic isolating mechanism?
a. 1 occurs before egg & sperm unite b. 1 occurs before evolution of the individual c. both d. neither |
A. 1 OCCURS BEFORE EGG & SPERM UNITE
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Give an example of post mating isolating mechanism?
a. geographic barrier b. behavirol isolation c. environmental barrier d. sterile offspring |
D. STERILE OFFSPRING
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Which of these would be an ex. of geographical isolation?
a. mountain b. river c. lava flow d. an island e. all |
E. ALL
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When 2 gene pools are isolated for a time & then reunited, how do you tell if still the same species?
a. by using Darwins concept o survial of fittest b. by using Meyers concept of breeding c. by using Lamarch aquried characteristics d. none |
B. By using Meyer's concept of breeding
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In an ecological isolation the 2 ______ of organism can be within sight of each other?
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TRUE
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If a new species is formed the intial gene pool, it is which?
a. sympatric b. allepatric c. parapatric d. a & c |
A. SYMPATRIC
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Which is no longer a recongizable catery?
a. sympatric b. allepatric c. parapatric d. a & c |
C. PARAPATRIC
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Life started _____?
a. on land b. in the water c. both d. neither |
B. IN THE WATER
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The life forms that invaded land first were?
a. plants b. animals c. both d. neither |
A. PLANTS
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The ancestor to the amphibians is?
a. finned fishes b. the lobed finned fishes c. the finless fishes d. none of these |
B. The lobed finned fishes
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Reptiles are said to evolve from?
a. birds b. amphibians c. fishes d. none of these |
B. AMPHIBIANS
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The cause of mass extinction of large numbers of species could be which of the following?
a. volcanic eruptions b. climate changes c. shifting land masses d. meteroites e. any of these |
E. ANY
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Human had ancestors that were adapted to which of the following?
a.. grasping hands b. binocular vision c. arboreal dwelling d. all of these |
D. ALL OF THESE
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Reptiles gave rise to?
a. birds b. mammals c. both d. neither |
C. BOTH
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The firsit humans were reportedly found in?
a. china b. america c. africa d. berneo e. none |
C. AFRICA
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The ancestors to Homo habids was probably?
a.) A. anamensis b.) A. aferensis c.) A. Africanus d.) A. Robustus |
B.) A. aferensis
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The ancestor to homo sapiens could possibly be?
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D.)) H. Heidelbergensis
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