BIOL 112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Carl Linnaeus, Phylogenetic Tree, Eukaryote
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What problems does horizontal gene transfer cause for evolutionary biologists?
It can make reconstruction of phylogenetic trees difficult because it can obscure phylogenetic relationships. |
It can cause physiological problems in some organisms, making it hard to study them. |
It can make breeding between different individuals of the same species difficult. |
Because it is transfer of genes between the same species, it can make individuals look more similar than they actually are. |
All of the above Which statement best describes the maximum parsimony approach to the reconstruction of phylogenetic trees?
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1. Features in two different groups of organisms that are sharedbecause they were inherited from a common ancestor are examples of:(One word. Case does not matter, but you must spell it exactlycorrect.) ____________
2. A phylogeny is:
A. | A diagram showing the relationship between groups oforganisms | |
B. | A list of the evolutionary innovations possessed by a singlegroup of organisms | |
C. | A diagram of all the known ancestors in the fossil record for asingle species living today | |
D. | A unit of time used in geology |
3.
Homoplasy refers to:
A. | The tendency of closely related organisms to interbreed witheach other | |
B. | Features that ancestors had that were later lost by theirdescendants | |
C. | Features in different groups of organisms that are not inheritedfrom a common ancestor | |
D. | Features that appear only in a single group of organisms |
4.
Archaeopteryx lithographica and Tiktaalikroseae are examples of:
A. | Fossils that show early forms of multicellular life in thePrecambrian | |
B. | Transitional fossils that document the origin of evolutionaryinnovations | |
C. | Index fossils that are used to identify the age of rocks | |
D. | Living species that retain primitive characteristics |
QUESTION 3
Which of the following would NOT be a good method for sortingout the evolutionary relationships between a parrot, gorilla,hippopotamus, starfish, and catfish?
comparing the skeletal anatomy | ||
examining the habitat in which these organisms live | ||
looking at embryos for common developmental patterns | ||
comparing the nucleotide sequence divergence of selectedgenes | ||
all of the above would provide useful information |
10 points
QUESTION 4
Which of these habitats should have the highest number ofendemic species (found there and nowhere else).
grasslands of the central United States | ||
Hawaiian islands | ||
Amazonian rainforest basin | ||
Mississippi river |
10 points
QUESTION 5
Darwin's concept of evolution "the theory of descent withmodification through variation and natural selection" can bedemonstrated by which of the following examples?
A giraffe stretches his neck to reach higher branches. Theexercise of stretching up strengthens the muscles in the neck andlegs. This ability to stretch is also seen in the giraffe'soffspring. | ||
A monkey accidently drops her fruit in the salty water of a bay,she recovers the fruit and eats it. She discovers that the fruit iscleaner and tastes better after it has been in the salty water. Shecontinues to wash fruit in the bay before eating. Her offspring seewhat she has done and also wash their fruit in the salty water.Soon the whole population is washing their fruit | ||
Several turtles hatch from a clutch of eggs buried in the sandon a beach. One of the turtles is the color of the sand, the othersare darker in color. The turtles all scurry to the water, but oneby one the dark turtles are eaten by birds, only the sand coloredturtle survives. When it enters the water the sand color changes toa darker brown. The turtle grows, mates and has offspring that arealso sand colored when they are born | ||
A female alligator gives birth to a male alligator that has theability to change color to a bright white when it is in cold water.The baby male alligator is quickly spotted by a large bird of preyand eaten |
10 points
QUESTION 6
During the Beagle journey, Darwin visited islands,allowing him to compare island species with continental species. Interms of framing his theory of evolution, why was thissignificant?
Because the island species had both similarities to theircontinental ancestors and unique adaptations to their islandenvironments | ||
Because the island species no longer shared traits with theircontinental ancestors | ||
Because the species he saw on the islands had not changed fromtheir ancestral continental form | ||
Because the island species had very low reproductive andsurvival rates as compared with their continental ancestors |