Kinship Quiz!
Are Tinbergen's Four Questions making you depressed? Well you are not alone. Which is good because being alone makes depression worse. Stop being worse. Take this quiz as much as you need to study.
- 1.
We'll start with some basics. Which of the 4 questions pertains to "How an individual organism's structures function" ?
- A.
Proximate
- B.
Ultimate
- C.
Ontogenetic
- D.
Phylogenetic
Correct Answer
A. Proximate -
- 2.
Which of the four questions deals with "Why a species evolved the structures (adaptations) it has"?
- A.
Proximate
- B.
Ultimate
- C.
Ontogenetic
- D.
Phylogenetic
Correct Answer
B. Ultimate -
- 3.
Which of the four questions relates to "Developmental explanations for changes in individuals, from DNA to their current form"
- A.
Proximate
- B.
Ultimate
- C.
Ontogenetic
- D.
Phylogenetic
Correct Answer
C. Ontogenetic -
- 4.
Which of the four questions pertains to "The history of the evolution of sequential changes in a species over many generations"?
- A.
Proximate
- B.
Ultimate
- C.
Ontogenetic
- D.
Phylogenetic
Correct Answer
D. Phylogenetic -
- 5.
Which of the 4 questions would you use to study the Indian practice of walking over hot coals? (think of how one conditions their body)
- A.
Proximate
- B.
Ultimate
- C.
Ontogenetic
- D.
Phylogenetic
Correct Answer
C. Ontogenetic -
- 6.
Which of the 4 questions would you apply to the scenerio of some one pulling their hand away from a hot stove? (think about the structures of the brain and body involved)
- A.
Proximate
- B.
Ultimate
- C.
Ontogenetic
- D.
Phylogenetic
Correct Answer
A. Proximate -
- 7.
Which of the 4 questions would you use to research how domestic dogs react to being pulled towards a fire? (think when would this trait come about in their evolution?)
- A.
Proximate
- B.
Ultimate
- C.
Ontogenetic
- D.
Phylogenetic
Correct Answer
D. Phylogenetic -
- 8.
Which of the 4 questions would you use to research selective pressure? (why did this trait become benefical?)
- A.
Proximate
- B.
Ultimate
- C.
Ontogentic
- D.
Phylogenetic
Correct Answer
B. Ultimate -
- 9.
Which of the 4 questiosn would you apply to studying how temperature effects the gender of baby reptiles?
- A.
Proximate
- B.
Ultimate
- C.
Ontogenetic
- D.
Phylogenetic
Correct Answer
C. Ontogenetic -
- 10.
Which of the 4 questions would look at why birds fly south for the winter? (think adaptation)
- A.
Proximate
- B.
Ultimate
- C.
Ontogenetic
- D.
Phylogenetic
Correct Answer
B. Ultimate -
- 11.
How about Darwin's studies of the Galapogos inguana haivng webbed feet? (think natural selection)
- A.
Proximate
- B.
Ultimate
- C.
Ontogenetic
- D.
Phylogenetic
Correct Answer
B. Ultimate -
- 12.
What about studying the height of children born to American immigrants? (think of their parents having less nutrition and developing to be shorter)
- A.
Proximate
- B.
Ultimate
- C.
Ontogentic
- D.
Phylogenetic
Correct Answer
C. Ontogentic -
- 13.
How about studying how one's brain responds to pain? (think of how the nerves would send signals to the brain)
- A.
Proximate
- B.
Ultimate
- C.
Ontogentic
- D.
Phylogenetic
Correct Answer
A. Proximate -
- 14.
Are you sick of Tinbergen's 4 Questions yet?
- A.
Yes
- B.
Proximate?
Correct Answer
A. Yes -
- 15.
OK, which of the 4 questions are associated with the following words or phrases: WHAT IS THE ORIGIN OF THE TRAIT, HOW ARE SPECIES RELATED, EVOLUTION
- A.
Proximate
- B.
Ultimate
- C.
Onotgentic
- D.
Phylogenetic
Correct Answer
D. Phylogenetic -
- 16.
Which of the 4 questions are associated with the following words or phrases: WHY ARE SOME TRAITS SELECTED, ADAPTIVE, FUNCTION
- A.
Ultimate
- B.
Proximate
- C.
Ontogenetic
- D.
Phylogentic
Correct Answer
A. Ultimate -
- 17.
Which of the 4 questions are associated with the following words or phrases: HOW DOES DEVELOPMENT AFFECT TRAITS, TIMING OF ADAPTATION, DEVELOPMENT
- A.
Proximate
- B.
Ultimate
- C.
Ontogentic
- D.
Phylogenetic
Correct Answer
C. Ontogentic -
- 18.
Which of the 4 questions are associated with the following words or phrases: WHAT ARE THE CAUSES FOR CERTAIN SOCIAL BEHAVIOR, CAUSES OF CERTAIN TRAITS, STRUCTURE, CAUSE AND EFFECT, REACTIONS
- A.
Proximate
- B.
Ultimate
- C.
Ontogentic
- D.
Phylogenetic
Correct Answer
A. Proximate -
- 19.
This question has nothing to do with lineage charts.
- A.
Right on
- B.
My mother's brother's daughter
Correct Answer
A. Right on -
- 20.
Stable breeding bonds in mammals in general reflect various trade offs between male sexual competition and female feeding containts.
- A.
Proximate
- B.
Ultimate
- C.
Ontogentic
- D.
Phylogentic
Correct Answer
B. Ultimate -
- 21.
To understand how these changes in sibling relationship came about, one needs a comparative base line; one must know about the nature of sibling relations in the ancestral male kin prior to the evolution of pair bonds.
- A.
Proximate
- B.
Ultimate
- C.
Ontogentic
- D.
Phylogentic
Correct Answer
D. Phylogentic -
- 22.
Cooperative activities are widespread because they relate to somatic (resource acquisition, social strategies-aid in conflict, dominance, cofeeding and reproduction effort.
- A.
Proximate
- B.
Ultimate
- C.
Ontogentic
- D.
Phylogenetic
Correct Answer
B. Ultimate -
- 23.
Pair bonding alters sibling bonds because it creates a new structure of relationships within the family.
- A.
Proximate
- B.
Ultimate
- C.
Ontogentic
- D.
Phylogenetic
Correct Answer
A. Proximate -
- 24.
Ok, on to something new. What comes after the following: PRIMATE BASIS > PAIR BONDING > TRIBE >
- A.
Dev. of kin groups > descent patterns
- B.
dev. of residence patterns > descent patterns
- C.
Bilocality > matrilocality > dev. of kin groups
- D.
Descent patterns > dev. of residence patterns
Correct Answer
B. dev. of residence patterns > descent patterns -
- 25.
You're done!
- A.
I am so done.
- B.
Hey a sloth!
Correct Answer
B. Hey a sloth! -
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