Anthro Quiz's

Which of the following focuses on fossils to reconstruct the human family tree?

 

Paleoanthropology

Which of the following focuses on the material culture of past societies?

Archaeology

Which of the following focuses on nonhuman primate behavior and biology?

Primatology

The change in the genetic makeup of a population from one generation to the next is _________________

evolution

Developed modern taxonomy (genus, species, etc.)

Linnaeus

Developed Natural Selection

Charles Darwin

Developed Uniformitarianism

James Hutton

Developed Use and disuse

Lamarck

Who was the captain of the HMS Beagle?

Robert FitzRoy

Who was Charles Darwin's co-author for the joint paper on Natural Selection to the Linnean Society?

Wallace

Most mammals have 5 rays/digits on their hands and feet. This is an example of a ________________ trait.

Homologous

Who wrote Principles of Geology, the book that Charles Darwin had with him on his voyage?

Lyell

The unit of natural selection is the:

Individual

Fitness is:

The number of offspring raised to reproductive age

For Darwin, natural selection was not the only type of selection. He believed _________ was also important.

SexuaI selection

Adenine binds with:

Thymine

Each somatic cell in your (human) body contains ____ chromosomes.

46

The end result of meiosis is __________ cells

haploid

Which of the following is an autosomal aneuploid?

Trisomy 21

If your DNA triplet is ATC, your tRNA anti-codon would be:

AUC

The protein responsible for directing the bipotential gonad to become a testis is ______.

TDF

True or False: A mammal with Xy as their 23rd pair of chromosomes can be female.

True

Two individuals who are homozygous for a trait can have offspring who are ___________________ for that trait.

Homozygous or heterozygous

Human gametes contain _____ chromosomes.

23

If an individual is Xy and has a functional SRY gene but the gene for androgen receptors is mutated, the individual will be:

Normal female, but sterile

Traits coded for on one chromosome do not influence the expression of traits coded for on another chromosome. This is known as:

Principle of independent assortment

If two heterozygotes for a Mendelian trait mate, what percentage of the offspring will be homozygotes?

50%

A Barr body is:

an inactivated X chromosome in an individual with two X chromosomes

If two heterozygotes mate, one with Type A blood, and one with Type B blood, what percentage of the offspring are expected to be homozygotes?

25

If two heterozygotes mate, one with Type A blood, and one with Type B blood, what percentage of the offspring are expected to be Type A?

25

A trait tends to skip generations, and two parents that do not express the trait can have a child who does have the trait. The trait is found in males and females. The most likely mode of inheritance is:

Autosomal recessive

For any X-linked trait males can be:

Hemizygous

A person who is hemizygous recessive at a locus has:

a recessive allele on the Y chromosome only

Which force of evolution decreases genetic variation?

Genetic drift

Sickle cell anemia is inherited in an ___________________ manner.

Autosomal recessive

The only source(s) of new genetic material in any population is/are

mutations