Chapter 3 Themes Of Anthropology: Evolution
YThis is a practice test I am doing for myself, I mean no copyright infringement and this is just for personal testing of my knowledge.
- 1.The idea of biological evolution goes back to?
- A.
The ancient Greeks
- B.
A century or so before Charles Darwin
- C.
Charles Darwin
- D.
Around the beginning of the 20th Century
- 2.Archbishop James Ussher is credited with calculating the age of the earth at about?
- A.
4.5 Billion years
- B.
12 to 18 Billion years
- C.
65 Million years
- D.
6000 years
- 3.Jean de Lamarck's idea about biological evolution included both correct and incorrect parts. Which of his ideas has proved to be correct?
- A.
That life evolves toward increasing complexity
- B.
That living forms become more perfect with time
- C.
That individuals inhered new adaptations acquired by their parents
- D.
That evolution is related to changes in the environment
- 4.Which is NOT a part of Lamarck's inheritance of acquired characteristics?
- A.
Recognition by an organism of environmental change
- B.
Automatic production of new adaptive traits
- C.
Possibility of extinction when adaptation doesn't work
- D.
Passing on of acquired traits to offspring
- 5.The contribution of Charles Darwin to the theory of evolution was that he?
- A.
Proved evolution had occurred
- B.
Disproved the Bible
- C.
Provided a mechanism to explain how evolution works
- D.
Was the first to apply science to the study of evolution
- 6.Darwin's idea about the major process of evolution is called?
- A.
Descent with modification
- B.
Natural selection
- C.
Inheritance of acquired characteristics
- D.
Adaptation
- 7.Darwin delayed for some time before publishing his idea. Which was NOT a reason for his delay?
- A.
His idea acknowledged extinction
- B.
His idea did not include progressive evolution toward greater complexity
- C.
His version did not claim that evolution was directed toward humans
- D.
Nobody believed in evolution in the first place
- 8.Alfred Russel Wallace is known for?
- A.
Proposing explanations for evolution that differed from Darwin's
- B.
Hitting upon the idea of natural selection at about the same time as Darwin
- C.
Deriving the basic laws of genetics
- D.
His advocacy of divine creation
- 9.The basic laws of inheritance were articulated by?
- A.
Gregor Mendel
- B.
Charles Darwin
- C.
Alfred Russel Wallace
- D.
Archbishop James Ussher
- 10.The core of Mendel's ideas about inheritance are that?
- A.
Genes undergo mutations
- B.
Inheritance involves the passing on of "particles"
- C.
Inheritance involves the blending of parental substances
- D.
Genetics explains how evolution works
- 11.An allele is?
- A.
A variant of a gene
- B.
The same as a gene
- C.
A mutated form of a normal gene
- D.
A recessive version of a gene
- 12.The combination of genes in an individual is called the?
- A.
Phenotype
- B.
Genotype
- C.
Allele
- D.
Dominant
- 13.The expression of a genetic combination is called the?
- A.
Phenotype
- B.
Genotype
- C.
Allele
- D.
Dominant
- 14.Alleles that are both expressed in the phenotype are said to be?
- A.
Dominant
- B.
Homozygous
- C.
Co-dominant
- D.
Recessive
- 15.In Mendelian genetics, a dominant allele is?
- A.
Better fit
- B.
More common
- C.
The one that codes for the normal expression of a trait
- D.
The one that is expressed phenotypically over other alleles
- 16.In Mendelian genetics, a recessive allele is?
- A.
Uncommon
- B.
Only expressed phenotypically if homozygous
- C.
Less fit
- D.
The one that codes for abnormal traits
- 17.Homozygous means?
- A.
Having the same alleles in a pair
- B.
Producing identical twins
- C.
Having two different alleles in a pair
- D.
Producing similar zygotes at fertilization
- 18.Heterozygous means?
- A.
Having the same alleles in a pair
- B.
Producing identical twins
- C.
Having two different alleles in a pair
- D.
Producing similar zygotes at fertilization
- 19.Gametes are?
- A.
Fertilized egg cells
- B.
Individual genetic expressions that combine at fertilization
- C.
Sex cells like sperm and eggs
- D.
Another name for the genetic variants known as alleles
- 20.Humans have approximately _________ genes.
- A.
3 billion
- B.
1 million
- C.
500,000
- D.
20,000
- 21.A species is best defined as?
- A.
A kind of living organism
- B.
A group of organisms that looks completely different from others
- C.
A group of organisms with similar adaptations
- D.
A reproductively isolated group of organisms
- 22.The study of environmental relationships is called?
- A.
Evolution
- B.
Ecology
- C.
Adaptation
- D.
Descent with modification
- 23.The set of natural features to which an organism is adapted and the way in which it is adapted is known as its?
- A.
Habitat
- B.
Ecosystem
- C.
Niche
- D.
Environment
- 24.A set of directly interacting habitats make up a(an)?
- A.
Society
- B.
Ecosystem
- C.
Niche
- D.
Environment
- 25.The study of how an animal is adapted should focus on its?
- A.
Behavior
- B.
Anatomy
- C.
Physiology
- D.
Communication System
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