BIO 182 Exam 1-ASU Latest Update 2024 Version 145 Questions and Verified Correct Answers Guaranteed A+
a characteristic of an organism that varies genetically - CORRECT ANSWER: trait
a description of an organism's appearance or behavior - CORRECT
ANSWER:phenotype
a form of a gene that affects the way an organism looks or behaves - CORRECT
ANSWER:allele
a hapliod cell that develops into a sperm or an egg - CORRECT ANSWER: gamete
a highly condensed molecule of DNA that codes for many proteins - CORRECT
ANSWER:chromosome
a linear sequence of DNA that codes for a certain protein - CORRECT ANSWER: gene
a model is a formal description of a scientific hypothesis. which provides the most
precise description of a hypothesis? - CORRECT ANSWER:
a place on a chromosome where a certain gene occurs - CORRECT ANSWER: locus
a process in which a diploid cell produces four haploid cells - CORRECT
ANSWER:meiosis
a process in which a diploid cell produces two diploid cells - CORRECT
ANSWER:mitosis
a well designed experiment... - CORRECT ANSWER: controls for environmental and
genetic factors, involves replications of experimental subjects, and randomizes experimental subject among treatments
an error in the sequence of nucleotides when copying DNA - CORRECT
ANSWER:mutation
estimates the degree of variation in a phenotypic trait in a population that is due to genetic variation between individuals in that population - CORRECT
ANSWER:heritability
evolution by natural process - CORRECT ANSWER: natural evolution
evolution guided by god - CORRECT ANSWER: theistic evolution
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how many species live in planet Earth? - CORRECT ANSWER: unknown-roughly 3 to 5
million
species created by God - CORRECT ANSWER: creation
the ability of a microorganism to withstand the effects of an antibiotic-evolves naturally
via natural selection through random mutation - CORRECT ANSWER: antibiotic
resistance
the diploid cell that results from fertilization between sperm and egg - CORRECT
ANSWER:zygote
the scientific method relies on.... - CORRECT ANSWER: models, observations, and
experiments
the set of alleles that determine how an organism looks or behaves - CORRECT
ANSWER:genotype
thought there was an inheritance of acquired traits-like giraffes and their long necks -
CORRECT ANSWER: Ideas of Lamarck
true or false: a probability of 0.98 means that an event occurs rarely - CORRECT
ANSWER:false
true or false: a punnett square enables one to determine the frequency of observed genotypes without using a mathematical formula to calculate the joint probability -
CORRECT ANSWER: true
true or false: an experiment enables one to demonstrate that a correlation between two
variables results from cause and effect - CORRECT ANSWER: true
true or false: biodiversity on earth will likely decrease in the near future? - CORRECT
ANSWER:
true or false: both Darwin and Wallace must have assumed that differences among
individuals were passed onto their offspring - CORRECT ANSWER: true
true or false: both Wallace and Darwin adopted a worldview described as either
naturalistic evolution or theistic evolutions - CORRECT ANSWER: true
true or false: modern mathematicians accept irrational numbers because such numbers provide more accurate solutions to problems than whole numbers do - CORRECT
ANSWER:true
true or false: opposition to irrational numbers stemmed from a worldview involving naturalistic evolution - CORRECT ANSWER: false
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