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BIOS 105 Quizzes
- Variation for a trait in a population of organisms can be measured, graphed, and shown to
produce which kind of pattern?:
Answer Normal distribution
- What does ACE stand for in relation to human physical and social health?-
Answer Adverse childhood experience
3. What is evolutionary fitness?:
Answer How well a species is able to survive and repro- duce in it's environment
- Natural selection requires which of these things? Select ALL of the options that are correct.:
Answer Changing environment, reproduction, being the best adapted to the environment
5. Allostasis means...:
Answer The process by which the body responds to stressors in order to regain homeostasis/the work down to adjust our bodies
- Fetuses (babies growing inside the mother) who have parents suffering from high
allostatic load have smaller hippocampus and a large :
Answer Amygdala
- According to the Hoffman et al., 2016 study, a white doctor is more likely to underestimate
the pain and consequently mistreat an African-Ameri- can patient compared to a Caucasian
parent:
Answer 15%
8. Choose all things that evolution needs to proceed:
Answer Time, information transfer, variation
9. Which of the following are the directed ways that evolution progresses?:
Answer Environmental selection of phenotypes
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