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. polygene.

D. phenotype.

Question #2

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

A. Thomas Huxley.

B. Charles Darwin.

C. Gregor Mendel.

D. Thomas Hunt Morgan.

Question #3

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

A. Robert Hooke.

B. John Ray.

C. Charles Darwin.

D. Gregor Mendel.

Question #4

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

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

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

C. coined the concept of evolution.

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

Question #5

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

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

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

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

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