Biology Quiz

· Question 1
The genome of Mycoplasma genitalium is about _______ genes in size.

· Question 2
Romans 8 describes modern living organisms as

· Question 3
The role of the barbule in the primary flight feather is to

· Question 4
Charles Darwin’s view of the species was

· Question 5
Which of the following is a basic evolutionary advance needed to convert a down-like feather into a primary flight feather.

· Question 6
One important value that disruptive selection can have to a natural population is that it

Selected Answer:

will remove from the population all individuals whose behavioral traits vary greatly from the populational norms.

· Question 7
One major problem with the speculation that the origin of life occurred at geothermal vent is that

Selected Answer:

no one has ever seen any life forms near these geothermal vents.

· Question 8
One advantage associated with viewing RNA as the original site of information storage in the primitive cell is that RNA

· Question 9
Which of the following organisms were not observed by Charles Darwin while reading and voyaging the world?

· Question 10
Directional selection has been used to

Selected Answer:

create many new useful genes in agriculturally important plants.

· Question 11

3.2 out of 3.2 points

Natural selection is an “expensive” process. This is true because

· Question 12
Could RNA have been the original site of information storage in the primitive cell? A difficult problem with this possibility is that

· Question 13
Which of the following represents three classes of mutations, each of which affects the evolutionary process differently?

· Question 14
3.2 out of 3.2 points

The Design theorist comes to the conclusion that most mutations occurring today are harmful because

· Question 15
Charles Darwin believed that whole new species originated as a result of

· Question 16
Both the theist and the naturalist come to the conclusion that most mutations occurring today are harmful because

Selected Answer:

background radiation levels and mutagenic chemical concentrations are higher now than previously.

· Question 17
Which stage of life history implied in the early pages of the Genesis record appears least likely to involve any biological change in populations with time?

· Question 18
The term _________ represents a predictive theory of how a species might change with time, whereas the term ________ assumes that nature can create whole new structures and organisms.

· Question 19
Which of the following represents an observation Charles Darwin made while reading and voyaging the world?

· Question 20
Which of the following classes of mutations accumulate silently in the DNA having no obvious effect on one’s ability to reproduce?

Selected Answer:

structural gene mutations

· Question 21
In the early pages of the Genesis record, the first stage of life history could best be described as

Selected Answer:

the creation existing in completed form.

· Question 22
During the formation of a feather which of the following structures appears as a result of early induction events within the dermal layer of the wing surface?

· Question 23
Sometimes a force within the environment reduces the reproductive ability of one variety of individual in a species compared to that of another variety. This force is termed

· Question 24
The potential power of directional selection cannot be demonstrated in a real population if

· Question 25
Mycoplasma genitalium is well known for the _________ infections it causes.