Pierce College » Anthropology » Anthropology 101 - Human Biological Evolution » Winter 2020

Question #1

The individual genotypes in a breeding population, taken as a whole, are the:

A. DNA.

B. gene pool.

C. phenotype.

D. polygene.

Question #2

The geneticist who studied the workings of fruit flies’ chromosomes was:

A. Thomas Hunt Morgan.

B. Charles Darwin.

C. Thomas Huxley.

D. Gregor Mendel.

Question #3

The scientist whose work provided the foundation for later understandings of genetics was:

A. John Ray.

B. Gregor Mendel.

C. Charles Darwin.

D. Robert Hooke.

Question #4

Charles Darwin’s book On the Origin of Species (1859) was considered an important contribution to modern science because it:

A. was immediately and widely accepted by the scientific community as the mechanism for evolutionary change.

B. synthesized information from diverse scientific fields in order to document evolutionary change.

C. proposed the use of the scientific method for the first time.

D. coined the concept of evolution.

Question #5

What are the classification levels of humans from order to species?

A. Primates, Strepsirhini, Catarrhini, Hominoidea, Hominidea, Homo, and sapiens

B. Mammalia, Platyrrhini, Hominioidea, Hominidae, Homo, and sapiens

C. Primates, Haplorhini, Anthropoidea, Catarrhini, Hominoidea, Hominidea, Homininae, Hominine, Homo, and sapiens

D. Chordata, Mammalia, Haplorhini, Hominoidea, Homo, and sapiens