Biological Anthropology

5 Written Questions

1. missing link at the time - problem with evolution fossil is incomplete and we make assumptions; fish like features and land features so answered question on how animals when from water to land
2. .males and females of the same species having different external characteristics and features
3. branching diagram, suggesting evolutionary relationships, that classifies species into groups within groups
4. argued that the earth was older than the bible said and also that the environment is an agent of change
5. species that is now extinct, species defined from fossil evidence, often covering a lifetime span

5 Matching Questions

1. Types of Selection
2. Evolution
3. Principle of segregation
4. Meiosis
5. Sickle Cell And malaria

1. a genes occupied in pairs bc chromosomes which carry heritability occur in pairs and are separated in reproduction = offspring gets gamete (23 from each parent) -
2. b sex cells formed; two divisons to produce 4 daughter cells (23chromo
3. c Directional - go one way
   Selectional - working for the middle
   Oscillating - con go from one extreme to another
4. d Abnormal form of hemoglobin resulting from a point mutation Unsuitable living environment for Plasmodium
   Protection from Malaria
5. e change in allege frequency from one generation to another

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. An allele that was rare in the founders' parent population but
   is carried by even one of founders can become common. paticular kind of genetic drift; small population and mate within; low variation = all ppl are decended from the founders in effect all the genes in the expanding group will
   1. Gene flow
   2. Gregor Mendel
   3. Nucleotides
   4. Founder effect
2. convert energy into a form that can be used by the cell; get it from your mother which contains several or ring shaped DNA chromosome; variation caused by
   1. Mitochondrial inheritance
   2. Microevolution
   3. Recombination
   4. Intraspecific
3. a life form rapidly takes advantage of the many newly available ecological niche
   1. Parapatric Speciation
   2. Adaptive Radiation
   3. Macroevolution
   4. Recombination
4. Fixity of Species - god created life on earth and it can never change
   1. Evolution
   2. Galapogos Islands
   3. Alleles
   4. Carolus Linnaeus
5. DNA researchers; discovered model of DNA structure
   1. Recombination
   2. Crick and Watson
   3. Speciation
   4. Microevolution

5 True/False Questions

1. Mammalian traits → Monotremes: Primitive, egg laying mammals
   Marsupials: infants complete development in an eternal pouch Placental: Longer gestation allows the central nervous system to develop more completely

   True        False

2. Genus → the position where the gene is found in a on the chromosome

   True        False

3. Homeothermic → describes a process in which heat is absorbed from the environment

   True        False

4. Cladogram → Diagram that shows the evolutionary relationships among a group of organisms

   True        False

5. Allopatric Speciation → Free exchange of genes between two populations of organisms living in directly adjacent but environmentally different habitats. Hybrid zones develop

   True        False