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Biology 1116
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1)
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
Reinforce (support) angiosperm xylem cell:
vessel element
tracheid
fiber
phloem
megaphyll
2)
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
A terrestrial adaptation of seed plants:
gametophytes reduced and retained in sporophyte
pollination replaced swimming gametes
seeds replaced spores for dispersal
seeds provide provisions for developing embryo
all of the above
3)
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
Group most similar to the earliest land plants:
anthophyta
bryophyta
pterophyta
coniferophyta
sphenophyta
4) Fusion of nuclei during sexual reproduction in
fungi:
a) isogamy
b) anisogamy
c) karyogamy
d) plasmogamy
e) oogamy
5) Batesian mimicry and sneakers in salmon are
examples of:
a) Assortative mating
b) Heterozygote advantage
c) recombination
d) frequency-dependent selection
e) stabilizing selection
6) Produces haploid gametes:
a) sporophyte
b) gametophyte
c) embryophyte
d) anthophyte
e) haplophyte
7) Increases the frequency of homozygous recessive
phenotypes:
a) inbreeding
b) artificial selection
c) natural selection
d) sexual selection
e) gene flow
8) Best describes the concept of POPULATION
THINKING:
a) All individuals in a population are identical
b) All individuals in a population are unique
c) Populations mix randomly
d) Populations are isolated
e) Populations consist of fixed eides or essences
9) Grey whales were nearly hunted to extinction in
the early part of the 20th century. After hunting on
grey whales was banned, their populations recovered
to their original pre-hunting levels. This is an
example of:
a) Genetic drift
b) Founder effect
c) A population bottleneck
d) Gene flow
e) Reproductive isolation
10) Felis cattus is the Latin binomial for the domestic
cat. Felis is the:
a) Specific epithet
b) genus
c) family
d) order
e) kingdom
11) Alfred Russel Wallace:
a) traveled to the Galapagos on HMS Beagle
b) proposed theory of sexual selection
c) invented system of binomial nomenclature
d) independently derived theory of natural selection
e) didn't like strawberry ice cream
12) The Herring Gull complex of northern North
America, Asia and Europe is an example of:
a) genetic drift
b) introgression
c) morphospecies
d) ring species
e) reproductive barriers
13) These are banded domes of sediment:
a) stromatolites
b) protobionts
c) monomers
d) polymers
e) RNA
14) Responsible for the Irish potato famine of the
mid-19th century:
a) archaezoa
b) rhodophyta
c) oomycota
d) chlorophyta
e) gymnosperms
15) Bacterial genes transferred by viruses:
a) transduction
b) transformation
c) conjugation
d) syngamy
e) isogamy
16) The transformation of an unbranched phyletic
lineage:
a) anagenesis
b) cladogenesis
c) allopatric speciation
d) sympatric speciation
e) punctuated equilibria
17) The Biological Species Concept emphasizes:
a) Ecological separation
b) Phenotypic differences
c) Morphological differences
d) Reproductive isolation
e) Punctuated equilibria
18) According to Lynn Margulis, eukaryotic
chloroplasts and mitochondria arose from:
a) endosymbiosis
b) membrane infolding
c) anagenesis
d) cladogenesis
e) transduction
19) Synthesized organic molecules under conditions
resembling early earth:
a) Darwin and Wallace
b) Watson and Crick
c) Urey and Miller
d) Cuvier and Lamarck
e) Larry, Curly, Mo
20) NOT true of bacteria:
a) Have genome with 1/1000th the DNA as a
eukaryotic cell
b) Have peptidoglycan cell walls
c) Have genophores
d) Have plasmids
e) Have membrane-bound nucleus
Biology 1116 Final Exam
Evolution, Ecology and Biodiversity
Instructor: Scott Forbes
April 21, 2005
Name:
________________________________
Student Number:
________________________________
Exam Duration: 2.5 h
Number of Questions: 100
Instructions
1) Write your name and student number on this sheet and on the computer sheet.
2) Answer ALL questions - you are not penalized for incorrect answers, so if you are unsure
about the correct answer, guess.
3) Choose the answer that BEST MATCHES the question. Select only one answer for each
question.
Changing your mind
4) If you change an answer on the computer sheet, erase your original answer fully. Any
question where you have chosen more than one answer will be marked incorrect. Circle the
answer also on your exam sheet -- if you erase an answer on the computer sheet, indicate clearly
on your exam sheet which answer you intend.
1. Dominant male elephant seals mate with multiple
females. This mating system is best described as:
a) polyandry
b) polygyny
c) polygamy
d) polyploidy
e) polymorphous
2. Conservation biologists apply ecological research to
the design of reserves or protected areas. This is best
described as:
a) population ecology
b) community ecology
c) behavioural ecology
d) population viability analysis
e) landscape ecology
3. Of the following anatomical structures, which is
homologous to the wing of a bat?
a) dorsal fin of a shark
b) tail of a kangaroo
c) wing of a butterfly
d) flipper of a fish
e) arm of a human
4. Includes apicomplexans, oomycota,
diplomonads and euglena:
a) monerans
b) protistans
c) fungi
d) animalia
e) plantae
5. Red-winged and yellow-headed blackbirds both
nest in marshes. Yellowheads are dominant to
redwings when they are found together. Redwings
will occupy the entire marsh if yellowheads are
absent, but if yellowheads are present, they exclude
redwings from the marsh center, and restrict redwings
to the edge of the marsh. For red-winged blackbirds,
the entire marsh would represent:
a) habitat
b) range
c) population
d) fundamental niche
e) realized niche
6. Possess a triploid endosperm:
a) mosses
b) ferns
c) conifers
d) flowering plants
e) algae
7. Which marine zone would have the lowest rates of
primary productivity?
a) pelagic
b) abyssal
c) neritic
d) estuary
e) intertidal
8. Basic body plan is a sac with a gastrovascular
cavity; diploblastic:
a) cnidaria
b) echinoderm
c) porifera
d) platyhelminthes
e) urochordata
9. If the sex ratio in a population is significantly
different from 50:50 then which of the following will
be true:
a) the population will enter the extinction vortex
b) the genetic variation of the population will increase
over time
c) the genetic variation of the population will decrease
over time
d) the effective population size is greater than the
actual population size
e) the effective population size is smaller than the
actual population size
10. Associated with both the field of sociobiology
and the theory of island biogeography:
a) Konrad Lorenz
b) F. E. Clements
c) Niles Eldredge
d) E. O. Wilson
e) J. L. Picard
11. Some whales and primitive snakes possess
reduced leg bones. Horses and pigs retain two nonfunctioning toe bones located high up on the foot
with having any contact with ground. These are
examples of:
a) convergent evolution
b) vestigial structures
c) homologous structures
d) analogous structures
e) artifacts
12. Megaphyll leaf with branched veins; most are
homosporous; sporophyte the dominant generation:
a) ferns
b) conifers
c) moss
d) flowering plants
e) bryophytes
13. Brown-headed cowbirds exhibit a variety of
adaptations to their brood parasitic lifestyle. They
have short incubation times, they remove host eggs,
and their nestlings exhibit exaggerated begging calls.
Many host species have developed counteradaptations to avoid cowbird parasitism. For
example, some birds remove or bury cowbird eggs,
and many species defend their nests against female
cowbirds. This is an example of:
a) competitive exclusion
b) coevolution
c) interference competition
d) exploitation competition
e) resource partitioning
14. Which of the following is a requirement for the
maintenance of a Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium?
a) no mutation
b) random mating
c) large population size
d) no migration
e) all of the above
15. These are deuterostomes; larvae are freeswimming; adults are sessile marine animals; filterfeeders.
a) cephalochordata
b) urochordata
c) gnathostomata
d) echinodermata
e) arthropods
16. Genetic drift is associated with:
a) large populations
b) population bottlenecks
c) founder effects
d) gene flow
e) b and c above are correct
17. Includes the orangutans:
a) Anthropoidea
b) Prosimii
c) Pongo
d) Hylobates
e) Pan
18. When you eat lettuce you are acting as a:
a) producer
b) primary consumer
c) secondary consumer
d) tertiary consumer
e) detritivore
19. NOT a cause of microevolution:
a) genetic drift
b) gene flow
c) punctuated equilibria
d) mutation
e) natural selection
20. These are egg-laying mammals:
a) eutherian
b) monotreme
c) marsupial
d) ratite
e) prosimii
21. Alfred Russel Wallace:
a) is best known for his Essay on Populations
b) co-discovered the theory of natural selection
c) studied beetles
d) was the fifth Beatle
e) ate beetles
22. Lived 3.18 million years ago in Africa.
Nicknamed "Lucy":
a) Homo habilis
b) Homo erectus
c) Homo sapiens
d) Australopithecus afarensis
e) Australopithecus boisei
23. In coho salmon, males either sneak or fight during
spawning competition for access to females. Small
male body size is advantageous in sneaking; large male
body size is advantageous in fighting; males of
intermediate body size do poorly at both sneaking and
fighting. This is an example of:
a) directional selection
b) diversifying or disruptive selection
c) stabilizing selection
d) density-dependent selection
e) equilibrial or K selection
24. An organism that is non-photosynthetic, nonflagellated, eukaryotic and saprophytic is most likely
to be in which Kingdom?
a) Monerans
b) Protista
c) Fungi
d) Animalia
e) Enchanted
25. A hawk and an owl both eat the same species of
mouse. The relationship between the hawk and owl
is best described as:
a) predation
b) competition
c) parasitism
d) commensalism
e) mutualism