Analogous traits - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

absorptive heterotroph - An organism (usually a fungus) that obtains its food by secreting digestive enzymes into the environment to break down large food molecules, then absorbing the breakdown products. acidophile - able to live in extremely acidic environments adaptations - inherited aspects of an individual that allow it to outcompete other members of a population that lack the trait; evolve through natural selection Alfred Russel Wallace - came up with a mechanism for evolution simila...

BIOCHEM 32A Exam 1 MC 50 Questions and Answers Updated 2024/2025 Solved 100%; University of Notre Dame 1. Georges Cuvier proposed , which directly opposed the idea that Earth’s geological features can be explained by constant, steady mechanisms. A. Gradualism B. Catastrophism C. Uniformitarianism D. Adaptationism Consider the following statement for Questions 2 through 4: In Mendelian genetics, complete dominance is a heterozygous condition where the dominant allele masks any ef...

Bio 182 Final Exam Questions with Correct Answers Which of the following would be an example of convergent evolution? A. Hummingbird Bill sizes change in the shape to easily fit into flowers B. Competition among finches of Galapagos islands causing speciation C. Anteaters in Australia and anteaters and South America both developing long narrow skulls D. Maple trees migrating northward after glaciers started to recede in North America - Answer-C. Anteaters in Australia and anteaters and ...

Biology Questions and Answers (2023/2024) Rated A+ DNA Deoxyriboneucleic acid found mainly in the nucleus replication double the chromosomes nucleotides neuclic acid base pairs RNA receives instructions from DNA Transcription process of forming a neucleic acid using a template Translation uses the codons in mRNA to make a specific amino acid proteins monomers of amino acid chains mitosis, meiosis body cell reproduction and sex cell reproduction sexual reproduction 2 parents male and fema...

biology 1108 exam 1 questions and answers 100% correct evolution - Correct Answer ️️ -decent with modification; change in in genetic composition of a population from generation to generation fossils - Correct Answer ️️ -the remains or traces of organisms from the past strata (stratum= singular) - Correct Answer ️️ -superimposed layers of rock paleontology - Correct Answer ️️ -study of fossils- developed by Cuvier adaptations - Correct Answer ️️ -inherited characteristi...

domain Bacteria - domain of unicellular prokaryotes that have cell walls containing peptidoglycans. homologous structures - Structures in different species that are similar because of common ancestry. classification - the process of naming and assigning organisms or groups of organisms to a taxon analogous structures - have the same function in different groups but do not have a common ancestry analogy - similarity due to convergence ancestral traits - more primitive features, such as te...

TAMU Biology 112 Final Exam Questions and Answers 100% Pass Linnaeus - Answer- Binomial nomenclature Darwin - Answer- Fossils, strata Cuvier - Answer- catastrophic events caused extinction Hutton and Lyell - Answer- Gradualism, earth is OLD Lamarck - Answer- Use it or lose it, we get bigger and better, Adaptations - Answer- Inherited characteristics that enhance survival and reproduction Descent with Modification - Answer- Common ancestor (unity in life) aka evolution Alfred Wallace - A...

BIOCHEM 32A Exam 2 MC 50 Questions and Answers Updated 2024/2025 Solved 100%; University of Notre Dame 1. Georges Cuvier proposed , which directly opposed the idea that Earth’s geological features can be explained by constant, steady mechanisms. A. Gradualism B. Catastrophism C. Uniformitarianism D. Adaptationism Consider the following statement for Questions 2 through 4: In Mendelian genetics, complete dominance is a heterozygous condition where the dominant allele masks any ...

adaptative radiation - diversification of a group of organisms into forms filling different ecological niches allopatric speciation - aka geographical isolation: biological pops of the same species become isolated from each other to an extent that prevents or interferes with gene flow allopolyploidy - individual or strain whose chromosomes are composed of more than two genomes each of which has been derived more or less complete but possibly modified from one of two or more species -matin...

biology 1108 exam 1 questions and answers 100% correct evolution - Correct Answer ️️ -decent with modification; change in in genetic composition of a population from generation to generation fossils - Correct Answer ️️ -the remains or traces of organisms from the past strata (stratum= singular) - Correct Answer ️️ -superimposed layers of rock paleontology - Correct Answer ️️ -study of fossils- developed by Cuvier adaptations - Correct Answer ️️ -inherited characteristi...