1. What prevailing views were
directly challenged by the Principle of
Uniformitarianism, first outlined by Charles Lyell in the
Principles of Geology, which was published in 1830?
a. Earth is only a few thousand years old.
b. Species are fixed and unchanging.
c. Catastrophic events governed early Earth history and geologic
processes operating in the past were fundamentally different from
modern times.
d. A and C only
e. A, B and C
2.
Which of the following statements are
consistent with both Lamarckian evolution and modern views of
Darwinian evolution?
a. Use and disuse of body parts allows organisms to adapt to
their environment
b. Characteristics acquired during the lifetime of an organism
are transmitted to offspring.
c. Evolution is progressive and goal-oriented.
d. New species are the result of descent with modification.
e. Natural selection is a mechanism of evolutionary change.
3.
In the formula for determining a
population’s genotype frequencies, the term 2pq is based
on principles of Mendelian genetics, which demonstrate that
a. heterozygotes can be produced in two ways.
b. the population is doubling in number.
c. heterozygotes have two different alleles.
d. A and C only
e. A, B and C
