BIO 182 ASU Exam 1 Study Guide with Complete Solutions 100% Verified Correct Answers Key Point 1 - Correct Answer Even the most desperate organisms share some features, suggesting that the single, nine random process generated diversity.True or False #1: biodiversity on earth will likely decrease in the near future. - Correct Answer True!Fingerprints of human activity, spread of an invasive species, Rapid change and global climate, habitat destruction, Deforestation What are the Three World Views? - Correct Answer 1. Natural Evolution - Evolution by natural process2. Theistic Evolution - Evolution guided by God3. Creation - Species created by God True or False #3: Scientists believe in Evolution even though they currently lack evidence for the theory. - Correct Answer False! Based on know mechanisms: Natural Selection, Mutation, and Genetic Drift Key Point 2 - Correct Answer Biologists accept evolutionary theory because its predictions match observations.True or False #4: Extreme temperatures of 2015 are sufficient evidence to conclude that Earth is warming. - Correct Answer False! Not enough data to show a trend Key Point 3 - Correct Answer When something varies over space and time, one must compare sufficient samples to quantify effects accurately.What does Replicating Observations do? - Correct Answer Increases reliability of pattern.What does Controling Conditions do? - Correct Answer Isolates effects of certain factors.What does randomizing subjects do? - Correct Answer Decreases risk of bias from uncontrolled factors.What is Creationism and Catastrophism? - Correct Answer All species created in six days, Earth is 6,000 years old, species fixed, extinctions from catastrophe. Leading Biologist/ Paleontologist who championed this science/theory/belief Georges Cuvier (1769-1832). 1 / 2
True or False #5: Darwin's worldview when leaving England would best be described as Creationism. - Correct Answer True! Based on the fact that Creationism was the dominant world view at his place and time and that he was studying for religious life.What did Charles Lyell contribute to science in the context of Darwinian Evolution? - Correct Answer Charles Lyell believed in the old earth ideologies and slow and gradual change. (Old Earth theory - billions and billions of years old) What do Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, and Alfred Wallace have in common? - Correct Answer They all believed in natural selection and came up with theories about it.Key Point 4 - Correct Answer Darwin abandoned a theory of Creationism for a theory of evolution that better explained his observations about life.True or False #6: Darwin could not have proposed natural selection without abandoning the idea of creation. - Correct Answer False. Theistic Evolution could have been his world view.What book did Darwin write? - Correct Answer On the Origin of Species What are phenotypes? - Correct Answer physical traits True or False #7: Natural Selection occurs whenever some individuals reproduce more than others. - Correct Answer False! Not the only element that you need. The offspring has to be similar to parents (heritable).What are the necessary conditions of Natural Selection? - Correct Answer 1. Heritable Variation
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Key Point 5 - Correct Answer Natural Selection occurs whenever heritable phenotypes cause some individuals to reproduce more than others.True or False #8: Organisms evolve by natural selection. - Correct Answer False! Not organism but the population.