Exam 2: Mechanisms of Evolutionary Change

Darwin brought the term 'survival of the fittest' into The Origin of Species at the suggestion of:

Homo erectus had a brain which was how much larger than Homo habilis:

Multi-level selection is particularly associated with:

Species of Australopithecus began to appear in the fossil record around:

Two main reasons that the simple ratios Mendel predicted in breeding experiments frequently do not occur is due to:

The name given to the minuscule lozenge-shaped bodies responsible for providing energy for the cell via the controlled breakdown of sugars is:

Genes having more than one phenotypic are called ________whilst characteristics that depend on more than one genes are known as ________ respectively:

Humans have:

The three sources of variation in a population that natural selection can work on are:

Mendel uncovered 3 main findings

Humans are built from proteins based on:

The co-efficient of relatedness 'r' between 1st cousins is:

The process of producing cells with half the number of genes/chromosomes is called:

Group Selection is associated with:

A pea plant that with the genotype YY for colour is:

Anatomically modern Homo sapiens have existed for around:

The vast majority mutated genes are:

Put the following in the currently accepted order:

Humans have:

According to Dawkins _________ are any entities which are able to make copies of themselves whereas _________briefly carry the former respectively: