Liberty University BIOL 101 QUIZ 7
· Question 1
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The genome of Mycoplasma genitalium is about _______ genes in size.
· Question 2
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Romans 8 describes modern living organisms as
· Question 3
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The role of the barbule in the primary flight feather is to
· Question 4
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Charles Darwin’s view of the species was
· Question 5
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Which of the following is a basic evolutionary advance needed to convert a down-like feather into a primary flight feather.
· Question 6
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One important value that disruptive selection can have to a natural population is that it
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will remove from the population all individuals whose behavioral traits vary greatly from the populational norms.
· Question 7
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One major problem with the speculation that the origin of life occurred at geothermal vent is that
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no one has ever seen any life forms near these geothermal vents.
· Question 8
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One advantage associated with viewing RNA as the original site of information storage in the primitive cell is that RNA
· Question 9
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Which of the following organisms were not observed by Charles Darwin while reading and voyaging the world?
· Question 10
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Directional selection has been used to
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create many new useful genes in agriculturally important plants.
· Question 11
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Natural selection is an “expensive” process. This is true because
· Question 12
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Could RNA have been the original site of information storage in the primitive cell? A difficult problem with this possibility is that
· Question 13
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Which of the following represents three classes of mutations, each of which affects the evolutionary process differently?
· Question 14
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The Design theorist comes to the conclusion that most mutations occurring today are harmful because
· Question 15
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Charles Darwin believed that whole new species originated as a result of
· Question 16
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Both the theist and the naturalist come to the conclusion that most mutations occurring today are harmful because
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background radiation levels and mutagenic chemical concentrations are higher now than previously.
· Question 17
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Which stage of life history implied in the early pages of the Genesis record appears least likely to involve any biological change in populations with time?
· Question 18
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The term _________ represents a predictive theory of how a species might change with time, whereas the term ________ assumes that nature can create whole new structures and organisms.
· Question 19
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Which of the following represents an observation Charles Darwin made while reading and voyaging the world?
· Question 20
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Which of the following classes of mutations accumulate silently in the DNA having no obvious effect on one’s ability to reproduce?
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structural gene mutations
· Question 21
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In the early pages of the Genesis record, the first stage of life history could best be described as
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the creation existing in completed form.
· Question 22
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During the formation of a feather which of the following structures appears as a result of early induction events within the dermal layer of the wing surface?
· Question 23
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Sometimes a force within the environment reduces the reproductive ability of one variety of individual in a species compared to that of another variety. This force is termed
· Question 24
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The potential power of directional selection cannot be demonstrated in a real population if
· Question 25
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Mycoplasma genitalium is well known for the _________ infections it causes.
