BIOL 180 QUIZ test BUNDLED Exam Q & A with VERIFIED answers 2023 ATESTED

BIOL 180 Exam MOD 002 Concepts and Questions 2023 GRADED A+ and VERIFIED What is the most important difference between species richness and species diversity? correct answers Species diversity takes species number AND relative frequency into account. What is the key difference between primary ...

special creation correct answers 1. All species are independent 2. Life on Earth is young 3. species are immutable Pattern correct answers summarizes observations about the natural world (what happened) Process correct answers a mechanism that produces the pattern/set of observations (how it...

pure line correct answers In genetics, a strain that produces offspring identical to the parents when self-fertilized or mated within the strain. Pure lines are homozygous for the gene under study. hybrid correct answers the offspring of parents from two different strains, populations, or species...

What is the difference between a categorical and continuous variable? correct answers Categorical are assigned to discrete categories; continuous can take any value in a range. What is the difference between an explanatory (or independent) variable and a response (or dependent) variable? correct ...

Hypothesis correct answers A proposed explanation for a set of observations Null hypothesis correct answers A claim that the hypothesis is not correct Prediction correct answers Describes a measurable/observable result that must be correct if the hypothesis is valid (if, then) Experimental ...

Hypothesis correct answers A proposed explanation for a set of observations Null hypothesis correct answers A claim that the hypothesis is not correct Prediction correct answers Describes a measurable/observable result that must be correct if the hypothesis is valid (if, then) Experimental ...

Population correct answers Group of individuals that live in the same area at the same time Population Ecology correct answers Study of how and why the number of individuals in a population changes over time Abiotic and biotic factors correct answers Determine the range of a species Populat...

Discrete trait correct answers *Inherited trait* that exhibits *distinct phenotypes* Quantitative traits correct answers A trait that exhibits *continuous phenotypic variation* Asexual reproduction correct answers *Reproduction* where offspring inherit DNA from only *one parent* E.g. binary f...

monophyletic group correct answers a common ancestor and all of its descendants out-group correct answers a taxon that is closely related to a monophyletic group but not a part of it what is the difference between homology and homoplasy correct answers whether or not traits were inherited from...

Consumption correct answers A +/- interaction that occurs when one organism eats another Herbivory correct answers Takes place when herbivores consume plant tissues Herbivore correct answers Plant eater Parasitism correct answers Occurs when a parasite consumes relatively small amounts of t...

metapopulation correct answers a population of populations connected by migration replacement rate correct answers average fertility required for each woman to produce exactly enough offspring to replace her and her offspring's father community correct answers all species that interact in a c...

What is a synapomorphy? correct answers A trait that is similar in two or more species because it is derived from a trait that existed in a common ancestor. Why do synapomorphies arise during evolution? correct answers When a new species begins evolving independently, novel traits arise which are...

Aristotles central claims: correct answers (1) species are fixed types, and (2) some species are higher. Aristotle and others proposed that species were organized into a sequence based on increased size and complexity, with humans at the top Lamarck's Theory of Evolution correct answers That spe...

Ecology correct answers the study of how animals interact with their environment and each other Organismal Ecology correct answers the branch of ecology that focuses on the morphological, physiological, and behavioral adaptations that allow an organism to live in a certain area. "How do individu...