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BIOLOGY 1M03 FINAL EXAM PRACTICE QUESTIONS

Biology 1M03 Final Exam Practice Questions And Answers Interpret this statement: Extinct fossil species are typically succeeded by similar living species - ANS Extinct and living forms represent ancestors and descendants Which is an example of developmental homology a) gene content b) similar organismal structures c)vestigial traits d) similar embryonic traits - ANS d) Which is not one of Darwin's 4 Postulates: a) Individuals in a population vary in their traits b) These...

Biology 1M03 Midterm1 Exam Questions And Answers characteristics of living organisms - ANS - made up of 1 or more cells - processes and carries info - reproduces/replicates - evolves and changes - uses energy cell theory - ANS all organisms are made of cells and cells from pre-existing cells Louis Pasteur experiment - ANS tested growth in flasks of broth; no growth in the flask where the top was sealed Darwin & Wallace's theory of evolution - ANS all species are rel...

Biology 1M03 Midterm1 Exam Questions And Answers characteristics of living organisms - ANS - made up of 1 or more cells - processes and carries info - reproduces/replicates - evolves and changes - uses energy cell theory - ANS all organisms are made of cells and cells from pre-existing cells Louis Pasteur experiment - ANS tested growth in flasks of broth; no growth in the flask where the top was sealed Darwin & Wallace's theory of evolution - ANS all species are re...

Interpret this statement: Extinct fossil species are typically succeeded by similar living species - Answer Extinct and living forms represent ancestors and descendants Which is an example of developmental homology a) gene content b) similar organismal structures c)vestigial traits d) similar embryonic traits - Answer d) Which is not one of Darwin's 4 Postulates: a) Individuals in a population vary in their traits b) These differences are not heritable; they are not passed onto offs...

Biology 1M03 - Midterm Exam Questions And Answers convergent evolution - ANS the process by which organisms are not closely related, but independently evolve similar traits that help them adapt to similar environments evolution - ANS the process by which living organisms have developed and diversified from earlier forms during the history of the earth natural selection - ANS a process by which individuals with certain alleles produce the most surviving offspring in a populatio...

is culture and cumulative cultural change common in other animals? - Answer culture is common in other animals but cumulative cultural change is rare what is culture? - Answer the shared information acquired through social learning guest speaker Taru Vasanthan conducted her research on what species? - Answer tardigrades would organisms in an aphotic zone of the ocean use photosynthesis? - Answer the organisms would not use photosynthesis why may have bipedalism evolved in hominins? -...

MCMASTER BIOLOGY 1M03 EXAM Q&A

change from gen to gen via selection of heritable traits evidence for evolution - Answer - fossils - extinction - transitional forms - vestigial traits why is the myth about evolution being goal oriented false? - Answer species do not adapt because they "want" or "need" traits; they adapt them because an ancestor with that triat just so happened to reproduce sooner or more successfully than others why is the myth that evolution is a hierachy false? - Answer evolution is more a ne...

Biology 1M03 Final Exam Questions Correctly Answered Interpret this statement: Extinct fossil species are typically succeeded by similar living species - Extinct and living forms represent ancestors and descendants Which is an example of developmental homology a) gene content b) similar organismal structures c)vestigial traits d) similar embryonic traits - d) Which is not one of Darwin's 4 Postulates: a) Individuals in a population vary in their traits b) These differences are n...