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Evolutionary Biology Quiz #1 Hard - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 3 times
- The average score is 10 of 15
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| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| What type of speciation occurs when populations are geographically separated? | Allopatric | 100%
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| The two-sex-system (males and females) evolved from isogamy to what? | Anisogamy | 100%
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| What type of mimicry occurs when a harmless species evolves to resemble a dangerous one? | Batesian | 100%
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| By what process do alleles become more common by chance alone? | Genetic drift | 100%
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| A shifting diet contributed to an expansion in brain size in what human ancestor? | Homo erectus | 100%
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| What term describes similarity due to shared ancestry? | Homology | 100%
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| What did Richard Dawkins call ideas that spread from person to person, analogous to genes? | Memes | 100%
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| Early life may have evolved in a molecular ____ of organic molecules. | Soup | 100%
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| Which naturalist was independently writing about natural selection at the same time as Darwin? | Alfred Wallace | 50%
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| What behaviour would we expect to evolve when Hamilton's rule is satisfied? | Altruism | 50%
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| Sickle-cell alleles persist because heterozygotes have an advantage against what disease? | Malaria | 50%
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| What fossils provide some of the earliest evidence of microbial life around 3.5 billion years ago? | Stromatolites | 50%
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| Which hypothesis suggests that organisms must continually evolve just to keep up with ever-evolving counterparts? | Red Queen hypothesis | 0%
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| Darwin said that the sight of peacock feathers made him feel what? | Sick | 0%
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| What is a shared derived trait called? | Synapomorphy | 0%
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