Exam 2: Biology and Evolution

What was different (or unique) about Gregor Mendel's approach to gardening?

A painful disease in which oxygen-carrying red blood cells change into abnormal shapes is called:

Who was responsible for providing the principles of heredity?

Evolution is the central organizing principle of the biological sciences.

Which of the following is not a criterion that Linneaus used to determine classification of species?

What was unique about the "system of nature" classification when it was first proposed?

Darwin published On the Origin of Species in 1885.

When neither allele is dominant, it is referred to as _______________.

_______________ are the smallest working units of biological classification systems.

Which of the following represents an existing base pair?

Today, Darwin's evolutionary theory is supported by data from all of the following except:

Who proposed that animal populations remained stable over time because of the high proportion of animal offspring not surviving to maturity?

Homo describes a human _______________.

Historical processes can shape evolutionary theory.

In evolutionary terms, what kind of force is mutation?

What is sickle-cell anemia and how is it adaptive?

James Watson and Francis _______________ discovered the existence of DNA in 1953.

A bat's wing is homologous to a butterfly's wing.

Founder's Effect is a type of:

What is the evolutionary force that has kept populations from developing into separate species?