ISS Quiz 1

_______ is the evolutionary model that posits a slow, progressive, unidirectional change over time derived from based on the concept of uniformitarianism proposed by Charles Lyell

______ study "death assemblages" to understand what happened to an individual or individuals after death

Sickle cell is an inherited genetic trait that...

______ refers to copying errors in the process of sexual reproduction that introduce new genetic material and thus variability into the genome

According to the textbook, being able to falsify hypotheses is an important part of science because it enables us to refine our knowledge of the world around us. Unlike creation myths, evolutionary theory scientific because it is

An isolating mechanism disrupts the reproductive continutiry of a population, separating a now-independent population from its parent population. The two populations are now free to compete for resources should they re-establish contact. This scenario is called

The principle behind NOMA or "Non-overlapping Magisteria"

Sometimes structures, like those that allow human speech, arise within a species as a result of genetic drift hiding in the genome with no apparent purpose or reason but turn out to be suited for new purpose. These traits that become useful after the face are called

According to class lecture, Batesone's "Rule of Parsimony" refers to which of the following

In the field of evolution biology, macroevolution

Arthur Conan Doyle based his famous detective, Sherlock Holmes, on a professor he had in college. The professor was famous for his ability to observe small mannerism or details about objects, then use logic to interpret its significance using the _______ method

The "evolutionary taxonomies" put forward by experts were based on observation and usually an acute understanding of the diversity of organisms but were also untested and usually untestable hypotheses

Which of the following do cladograms accurately represent

The prevalence of Thalassemia, a genetic disorder that causes sickle cell anemia, among the lowland dwelling Dewar in Nepal and its near absence among the mountain dwelling Tamang indicates that _____ was the major factor in inheritance of this disease

Which of the following statements about genetic drift is true

Whales and dolphins are mammals were classified as artiodactyls making them distant relatives of camels, pigs and cows because they share common bone structure in their ankles. Molecular data, however, indicates that...

The modern scientific understanding of evolution is that evolution is result of an inevitable progression of simple to complex with of humans as in inevitable outcome of the process

The presence of canine diastema is indicative of primate that could not grind the tough, fibrous and gritty food that was typical of early hominid diet

In paleontology, what distinguishes one species form another

What is the following is a characteristic unique to hominins not shared by any other primates

The problem with the Calvin Effect, also know as the Panglossian Paradigm is the narratives they produce are too often "just-so" stories

The theory of evolution as we understand it today holds that

______ is the term psychologists use to describe the sensations we experience physically that we cannot describe or express in words that would be meaningful to someone who has never had the same subjective experience. For example

Raymond Dart suggested that early hominids used an osteodontokeratic tool made of

High prevalence of Ellis-van Syndrome and polydactylism (extra fingers and toes) among the Amish in Lancaster county, PA is a famous example of which of the following

Lacking a genetic model, early biologists such as Darwin and Lamarck explained change in species as the result of _________, a process where parents passed on traits acquired in their lifetime to their offspring

The French Jesuit Theihard de Chardin applied the concept of teleological functionalism to introduce the notion of a divine creator into a theory of evolution, a notion that was the basis for a papal encyclical on human origins that laid the basis for Catholic acceptance of evolution. How is his concept different from the intelligent design?

If you saw a monkey with a flat face hanging by its tail in the zoo, you would know the money is from

When Gould and Eldridge published research showing that species experience long periods of stability or equilibrium interspersed by periods of rapid change, they effectively demonstrated the theory of _____

On the first day of class, Dr. Handrick showed a series of pictures and read an essay about 6 people at a table in a restaurant. What did these examples illustrate

The presence of _______ makes it possible to achieve relatives dates for fossils deposited between layers of sedimentary, stratified rock

"The study of an organism's entire DNA or at least the study of very large portions of an organism's DNA, at the same time" refers to which of the following

Quadrupedal movement and +4 molars are distinctive features of

______ is "a well-tested explanation that unifies a broad range of observations"

It would appear that the emergence of the heavy molars, skull crest ad powerful jaws characteristic of Paranthropus from the more lightly boned Australopithecus africanus is the result of natural selection

In the case of Katzmiller v. Dover Area School District, Judge Jones ruled that...

Which of the following statements is true?

An argument is...

The "Abbot and Costello Math" was used in class illustrates the idea that when two different cognitive styles are used to explain the same phenomenon...