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SC 139 - First Exam 2008
Numbers are linked to
relevant passages in the book.
MULTIPLE CHOICE.
On the line to the left, place the letter of
the choice that best answers the question.
Three Points Each. NOTE: "e" answers are never the correct answer.
1. Colonial describes
_______ a. Darwin's theory of movement to islands
b. How genes and alleles interact
c. The development of scientific method
d. Unicellular organisms that act multicellular
e. Those bloody Americans to a Londoner
2. Specimens look the most three dimensional through
_______ a. A scanning microscope
b. A transmission microscope
c. A light microscope
d. An electron microscope
e. Those funny cardboard glasses
3. Without Alfred Russel Wallace, the Theory of Evolution by
Natural Selection might never have been
_______ a. Developed
b. Translated into Danish
c. Applied to animals
d. Published
e. Annoying students all over the world
4. The central process of the scientific method is
_______ a. Theories
b. Controlled experiments
c. Perfect logic
d. Broad agreement
e. Wearing lab coats and pocket protectors
5. In the phrase ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny, the first
word means
_______ a. Family history
b. Evolutionary background
c. Embryo development
d. A replay
e. That you can use your togeny to put stuff on
6. Advantageous features are a critical element in
_______ a. Deciding how to classify organisms
b. The changes associated with natural selection
c. Tracking cells in a multicelled system
d. Designing a workable experiment
e. They just make this stuff up, really
7. Which would have a nucleus in each cell?
_______ a. Prokaryotes only
b. Both prokaryotes and eukaryotes
c. Eukaryotes only
d. Neither prokaryotes nor eukaryotes
e. Are those even real words?
8. The power of a control test is how
it
_______ a. Repeats the experiment
b. Provides a comparison
c. Gives better measurements
d. Works with living things
e. Gives, um, you know, control
9. Cells seem to have size limitations
because, in general, ______ increases much faster than _______ as cells get
larger
_______ a. Volume...surface area
b. Metabolism...movement
c. Surface area...volume
d. Movement...metabolism
e. Spending...income
10. By the most recent method, which would be used to determine a
species?
_______ a. Breeding offspring of crosses to see if they're
sterile b. Comparing the earliest embryos
c. Checking fine details on anatomy d. Observing reproductive behavior out in the natural environment
e. Checking the Wikipedia entry
11. Traits that link together butterflies, bats, and airplanes
are based upon
_______ a. Taxonomy
b. Analogy
c. Ideology
d. Homology
e. Splattiness
12. One of Darwin's main inspirations for his ideas came from
_______ a. Pigeon breeding
b. Genetic studies
c. Dinosaur fossils
d. Embryo studies
e. His obsession with Victorian snack crackers
SHORT ANSWER.
Answer any eight of the following questions
for 4 Points Each.
Note: if you answer more than eight, only the first eight will be corrected.
You can get partial credit on these answers.
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1. Darwin found that two features
of islands seemed closely connected to how different the
island life was from the mainland. What were those two features? |
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2. What is meant by the "resolution limit"
for a microscope?
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3. When a biologist believes that a
group needs to be classified differently, |
What can
they easily
do? |
What are
they NOT
allowed to do?
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4.
Briefly explain why it may be absolutely
necessary to use a uniformitarian approach when you're trying
to figure something out.
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5. What material / molecule, found in
chromosomes, carries genetic information?
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6. Briefly explain what peer review is.
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7. The investigation of fossils almost
immediately led to a concept that was, at the time, considered
completely contrary to the Bible, although it isn't
today at all. What was the concept?
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8. Briefly explain how PostModernism is
applied to science.
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9. The two most common forms of
microscope differ in their imaging beams - what are the
two different beam types? |
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10. Put these taxonomic groups
in the proper order from largest to smallest: Class, Family,
Genus, Kingdom, Order, Phylum, Species, Superorder. |
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11. Why is it often necessary to section a
specimen?
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12. How do ancestral "splits"
in family trees happen in - |
Cladistics?
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Systematics?
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13. Either define or give an example of
convergent evolution.
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LONG ANSWER.
Answer any four of the following questions
for Eight Points Each.
Note: if you answer more than four, only the first four will be corrected.
You can get partial credit on these answers.
1. Fill in:
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Binomial nomenclature is the
term given to rules about naming ______________.
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What are three
of those
rules? |
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2. According to Malthus, what
are three different ways
that Nature prevents overpopulation?
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3. What are the four statements of the
Cell Theory? |
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4. Lamarck left behind two different
ideas that were wrong, but which had a lot of
influence. Briefly explain (don't just give the "title"!) how
each concept is supposed to work. |
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5. Give a simple progression, according to
Darwin's Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection, from the
beginning to the end here - (You can answer the question correctly
and not have the same number of steps as the number of lines
here). |
The environment around a population changes.
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considered a new species. |
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5. For four of the six
basic Kingdoms of Life, give the name of the Kingdom and
enough features to clearly set that Kingdom's members apart
from those of the other five. |
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6. What are four different
starting conditions that are likely to get a dead organism
fossilized? |
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Link to Answer Key
BONUS QUESTIONS.
Answer as many as you are able.
Wrong answers will not result in points being lost from the main exam.
You can get partial credit on these answers.
There were originally three labeled Kingdoms in Nature. For
Two Points Each, what were they?
Linnaeus, the classification guy, also studied what other biological
subject? Three Points.
What is a placebo? Three Points.
Why were Hooke's cells not cells? Three Points.
Leewenhoek, considered one of the fathers of microscopes - what was
his contribution to the technology? Three Points.
What is it about specimens that make it necessary to stain them?
Three Points.
Briefly describe the two iguana species that Darwin found on the
Galapagos Islands. Three Points Each.
What was the name of Darwin's ship? Three Points.
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