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Evolutionary Biology Quiz #1 Hard - Statistics

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What type of speciation occurs when populations are geographically separated? Allopatric
100%
The two-sex-system (males and females) evolved from isogamy to what? Anisogamy
100%
What type of mimicry occurs when a harmless species evolves to resemble a dangerous one? Batesian
100%
By what process do alleles become more common by chance alone? Genetic drift
100%
A shifting diet contributed to an expansion in brain size in what human ancestor? Homo erectus
100%
What term describes similarity due to shared ancestry? Homology
100%
What did Richard Dawkins call ideas that spread from person to person, analogous to genes? Memes
100%
Early life may have evolved in a molecular ____ of organic molecules. Soup
100%
Which naturalist was independently writing about natural selection at the same time as Darwin? Alfred Wallace
50%
What behaviour would we expect to evolve when Hamilton's rule is satisfied? Altruism
50%
Sickle-cell alleles persist because heterozygotes have an advantage against what disease? Malaria
50%
What fossils provide some of the earliest evidence of microbial life around 3.5 billion years ago? Stromatolites
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Which hypothesis suggests that organisms must continually evolve just to keep up with ever-evolving counterparts? Red Queen hypothesis
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Darwin said that the sight of peacock feathers made him feel what? Sick
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What is a shared derived trait called? Synapomorphy
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