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EIT - General Bio II Mid-Exam-2011
EIT - General Bio II Mid-Exam-2011
ea Institutte of Tech
hnology
Name: _____________________________
___________
Colleege of Sc cience
Depa artment of o Biologyy I.D. Number: ___________________
Geneeral Biolog
gy II (Biol 102)
Mid--Semesterr Exam n:
Section ___________________
Acad
demic yea ar – 2010//2011 Total = 4
40%
May 04, 2011 Time allotted = 1 ½ h
hrs.
are 6 printed
(There a d pages)
Part I
Instruction
n: Encircle the
t letter of
o your cho
oice. (1 x 7 = 7 marrks)
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5. A severe/harsh winter sto
orm (heavvy rain) kills
k many chickadeees. An invvestigationn
omparing the body siize of dead
co d birds witth that of tthe living sshows thatt
th
he dead birrds includeed mainly tthe largestt and smalllest memb bers of thee
po
opulation. This winter
w storm
s is a typ pical example off,
A Chickadee
a. stab
bilizing seleection d. sexu ual selectio
on
b. directional seleection e. all
uptive seleection
c. disru
6. If the allleles “A” aand “a” aree at Hardyy‐Weinberg
g equilibriuum, and if the freque
ency of “a””
is 0.3, w
which of thhe followingg is the moost commoon genotyp pe in the population?? (Hint: thee
2 2
Hardy‐W Weinberg eequilibrium m is given b
by: p + 2pq
q + q = 1)
a. A d. Aa
b. a e. aa
c. AA
7. Many systems
s annd organs in living th
hings are composed
c of a numb ber of parrts workingg
togetheer, and theey stop fun
nctioning even if on ne of thesee parts is m
missing orr defectivee.
(For exaample, the human eyye does no ot function unless it eexists with all its partts in place).
This is aa concept kknown as,
a. natu ural selection d. adap ptive radiation
b. evolution e. mutation
c. irred ducible commplexity
Part II
Instruction
n: Encircle the
t letter of
o your cho
oice and briefly
b expla
ain why yo
ou made your
selection in the provided space. (2 x 6 = 12 markss)
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2. The two o song birdds: Bullockk's oriole and the Balltimore oriiole are clo
osely relateed, but aree
they thee same speecies? To fiind out, yoou would seee whetheer they,
a. singg similar so
ongs d. live in the sam
me area
b. havve the samee color patttern in theeir featherss e. succcessfully intterbreed/m
mate
c. look alike
Why? ______________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________
___________________________
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n (a mamm
4. Dolphin mal), sharkk (a fish), aand pengu
uin (a bird))
are anim
mals that aare able to
o swim fastt near the surface off
the sea. Hence, thhey happen to have similar shaape ‐ theirr
body is
i stream mlined/‘smooth’ forr easy swimming.
s .
Evolutio
onists belieeve this sugggests, Shark
a. diveergent evolution d. adaptive radiation
n
b. coevvolution e. organic evolution
c. convvergent evolution
Do
olphin
Penguin
________________________________________
Why? ____________________________ __________
________________________________________ ____________________________ __________
5. Which o of the follo
owing is an example o of a change in gene ffrequency caused by genetic
drift?
a. Befo ore penicillin is introd
duced to a bacterial cculture, half the bacteeria were rresistant
to it; afterward ds, all the b
bacteria beecame resistant to it
b. a fro og from one pond jum mps to ano other pond and lives tthere
c. a mu utation in aa bacterium m gives it tthe ability tto resist th
he antibiotiic penicillin
n
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d. In a storm (heaavy rain), m
more bats w
with whitee hair than bats with black hair happen to
be kkilled
e. the number off black motths living o
on a dark trree trunk/sstem becom
mes greate er than thee
whitte ones
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Why? ____________________________ ___________
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6. Lizards left on 14 small islands in the Ba ahamas markedly
m cchanged their limbb
Lim
mb proportions/sizess to fit the
eir new en
nvironmentt after only 14 yearss
of reprroduction, a study in
n the Mayy 1, 1997, issue of the
t journal
Nature reported. Accordin ng to evollutionary tthinking, what
w term
m
describbes this con
ndition besst?
Lizard
a. diveergent evolution d. disruptiive selectio
on
b. adap ptive radiation onal selection
e. directio
c. convvergent evolution
Why? ______________________________________________________________________________
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Across Clues/Hint
C ts Æ
2. “M Mice had their tails cut for
1
seeveral geneerations. Yeet, each
time,
offspriing were boorn with 2
a normal‐‐size tail..” The
evvolution th heory, which was
3
diiscredited/r
/rejected by b this
exxperiment. 4
po opulation. 9
Down Clues/Hint
C ts ↓
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1. TThe orgganisms, which
e
evolutionist s believe to have
o
originated oon earth firsst.
A type of evolution whereby
3. A
t
the evolution of onee species
d
depends i
in part on the Part IV
e
evolution off the other. Instruction: Respon
nd to the following
f q
questions accordingly y.
6. The
T remainns or tracees of an (Write yoour answer legibly annd neatly iin the blannk Space
o
organism that existed d in the provided at the ennd of the liist of questtions).
d
distant past
t. (Total = 13 marks)
8. The
T persoon who proposed
p 1. Hummans selecct animalss and plants with desirable//good
n
natural sellection to be the
m
mechanism on.
for evolutio u in breeeding. What similar mechanism do
quallities for use
evolutionists b be in action in naturre? Talk about it
believe to b
in brrief. (2 marks)
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2. In a cerrtain population of raabbits, thee percentag ge of the h
heterozygo ous genotyype (Aa) for
a particular trait is 36%, an
nd you kno ow that th
he frequen
ncy of allelle “A” is 0.6.
0 Do you u
think this
t populaation of raabbits is geenetically changing (or evolviing)? Brieffly explain n.
2 2
(Hint: tthe Hardy‐Weinberg equation is given by:: p + 2pq ++ q = 1) (2 marks))
3. A huma an arm, a bat’s wing g, and a whale’s flipp per have qquite differrent functio on, though
h
thee bones insside display the samee basic strructure. What type of
eviidence wo ould this make in n evolutio on? Brieflly discusss.
(2 marks))
4. Many scientists believe that birds evolved from small,
preedatory diinosaurs called theroopods. Theey theorize e that bird
d
Arm Flipper ght began when dino
Wing flig osaurs ran n along thee ground and jumped d
into the air to cattch insectss or to avoiid predators. Based oon this info ormation,
a. How w would Darwinism explain thee evolution n of flight iin birds?
b. What does La amarckism has to sayy about the e claimed eevolution o of flight in birds?
c. What explanaation would d Neo‐Darwinism pro ovide to evvolution off flight in b birds?
(3 marks)
Evollutionary Tiime
5. In their experiment, Millerr and Ureyy used a gas
g mixture that they assume ed to havee
existedd on the primitive
p e
earth. Theen, suppossing that energy
e cou uld have come
c from
m
lightninng in the primitive atmospher
a re, they ussed an elecctric curreent. After some
s timee,
amino acids havve been syynthesized.. What did d Miller annd Urey w want to pro ove/show??
(2 marks)
6. Order tthe fossils labeled A, B, C, and D D according to their ssupposed eevolutiona ary age.
Give nuumbers (from 1 to 4) in the table to indicaate their reelative agee. 1 being tthe oldest
and 4 bbeing the yyoungest. (2 marks)
Fossil Description
D Relative ag
R e
A Prokaryotic
B In
n the fossil l record, it is always ffound burie
ed on top of fossil “A
o A”
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C Th
he C /C ratio is lesss than in “D” and is tthe closest relative to o “A”
D Has a body p part, which in “B” haas become vestigial
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