Who was the first scientist to use the word 'biologie'?

A. Jean Baptiste Lamarck

B. Baron Georges Léopold
C. Léopold Chrétien Frédérick
D. Frédérick Dagobert Cuvier
ANSWER: A

Select the major cause/s of species change as said by Lamarck.

A. A natural tendency for each species to progress toward a higher form
B. The inheritance of acquired characteristics
C. Both
D. None
ANSWER: C

The theory of catastrophism was proposed by ________.

A. Lamarck
B. Cuvier
C. Darwin
D. Hamilton
ANSWER: B

Darwin traveled the world as a naturalist on a ship, the ________.

A. Beagle
B. Bullock
C. Buffoon
D. Berkley
ANSWER: A

Who wrote 'An Essay on the Principle of Population'?

A. Thomas Malthus
B. Jean Lamarck
C. Mary Ainsworth
D. Lewis Hamilton
ANSWER: A

Which of the following is not one of the three essential ingredients of Darwin's
theory of natural selection?
A. variation
B. inheritance
C. differential reproductive success
D. struggle
ANSWER: D

Organisms with some heritable variants leave more offspring because those
attributes help with the tasks of _________.
A. reproduction
B. survival
C. both
D. none
ANSWER: C

Differential reproductive success or failure is defined by reproductive success

_________ to others.
A. relative
B. superior
C. inferior
D. disastrous
ANSWER: A
Darwin sometimes referred to his theory of natural selection as ______________
selection.
A. survival
B. sexual
C. deciduant
D. residual
ANSWER: A

The sight of what made Darwin sick?

A. feather in a peacock’s tail
B. porcupine's quills
C. elephant's poop
D. feather of a pigeon
ANSWER: A

An Austrian monk named Gregor Mendel showed that inheritance was ___________.
A. particulate
B. blended
C. semi-partial
D. partial
ANSWER: A

The unification of Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection with the

dis#covery of particulate gene inheritance culminated in a movement called the
__________.
A. Modern Synthesis
B. Modern Movement
C. Ethology Movement
D. Ethology Synthesis
ANSWER: A

Imprinting was first noticed by ___________, a nineteenth-century amateur

biologist.
A. Douglas Spalding
B. Oskar Heinroth
C. Nikolaas Tinbergen
D. Konrad Lorenz
ANSWER: A

Ethologists were interested in four key issues, which have become known as the four
“whys” of behavior advanced by ____________.
A. Douglas Spalding
B. Oskar Heinroth
C. Nikolaas Tinbergen
D. Konrad Lorenz
ANSWER: C

____________ forced psychologists to reconsider the role of biology in the study of

human behavior.
A. Ethology
B. Modern Synthesis
C. Inclusive Fitness theory
D. Sociobiology theory
ANSWER: A

Who challenged the prevailing endorsement of group selection?

A. George Williams
B. William Hamilton
C. George Hamilton
D. William Jones
ANSWER: A

Which of the following parameters does not belong to the criteria provided by
Williams for determining when we should invoke the concept of adaptation?
A. reliability
B. economy
C. efficiency
D. validity
ANSWER: D

Williams was extremely influential in showing that understanding adaptations

requires being ____________.
A. gene-centered
B. blended
C. particulate
D. open-minded
ANSWER: A

The book 'Sociobiology: The New Synthesis' was written by __________.

A. Robert Trivers
B. Oskar Heinroth
C. Edward Wilson
D. Owen Wilson
ANSWER: C

The theory of reciprocal altruism among nonkin was given by ____.

A. Robert Trivers
B. Oskar Heinroth
C. Edward Wilson
D. Jonathan Jones
ANSWER: A