Anthropology 1
Professor Debbie Klein
Fall 2005
MIDTERM #1 Study Guide
Exam Details: Your exam will consist of 50 multiple choice (1 point each) and 10
short answers (5 points each). It will cover material from Park Chs. 1-6, lectures,
homework assignments, and 3 films (Accidents of Creation, The Evolutionary
Arms Race, and Great Transformations).
Identify the following as succinctly as possible. Give an example where
appropriate.
Charles Darwin
Uniformitarianism
Stratigraphy
Evolution
Allele
Cell
Catastrophism
Adaptive Radiation
Comte Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon
Reproductive Isolating Mechanisms
Mutation
Charles Lyell
Natural Selection
Carolus Linnaeus
Essentialism
Genetic Drift
Gene Flow
Great Chain of Being
Cambrian Explosion
Gregor Mendel
Darwin’s finches
Reverend John Ray
Mitosis
Meiosis
DNA
Sickle Cell Anemia
Malaria
Tetrapod
Hawaiian Silver Sword
Nene
Prosimians
Jean Baptiste Lamarck
Georges Cuvier
Scientific Method
Thomas Malthus
The Beagle
Alfred Wallace
Blending Inheritance
Garden Peas
Chromosomes
Genes
Gametes
Genotype
Phenotype
Law of Segregation
Law of Independent Assortment
Species
Crossing over/Recombination
Trisomy 21
Intelligent Design
Scientific Creationism
Hutterites
Speciation
Darwinian Gradualism
Punctuated Equilibrium
Cambrian Expolosion
Pikaia
Burgess Shale
MDR-tb
Cholera
Brazilian leaf-cutter ant
The Grants’ finches
Sample Short Answers. Please answer the following as succinctly as possible.
1. Why was the idea of Evolution so revolutionary in Western Europe in the
1800s?
2. What tentative explanation did the video, Accidents of Creation, give for
the difference in relative brain size between humans and chimpanzees?
3. Briefly describe the 5 major subfields within Anthropology.
4. Explain why "scientific" creationism is considered a pseudoscience. Do
you agree?
5. Suppose 2 people who are both heterozygous for the taster trait produce
offspring. What are the possible genotypes and phenotypes of their
offspring? In what proportions will they be produced?
6. What important observations provided Darwin with clues in deriving his
explanation for biological evolution?
7. How did the activities of the "natural scientists" differ from those of their
predecessors?
8. If natural selection is so good at maintaining and even improving a
species' adaptation, why then do species become extinct?
9. How do whales swim, and what does this tell us about whale evolution?
10. What happened when Walter Gehring replaced a fly’s gene for eyes
(eyeless gene) with a mouse gene for eyes? What does this suggest?
11. What is our relationship to modern chimpanzees?
12. Describe Darwin's mechanism for evolution by telling how it differed
from Lamarck's.
13. A woman who is blood type B gives birth to a child who is type O. She
has accused a type A man of being the father. Is he? Explain your
reasoning.
14. What is the significance of the relationship between the poisonous newt
and the common garter snake in Western Oregon?
15. If microbes may be important for our immune systems to deal with our
environment, why do humans do anything to kill microbes?
16. What did you learn from the process of searching for and from reading
the “evolution” article that you found at the beginning of the semester?
17. Are mass extinctions a thing of the past?
18. List 2 arguments for and 2 arguments against genetic cloning. With
which do you agree and why?
19. Can we see evolution in action? If so, give an example.
20. Are humans still evolving?
21. Define and give an example of each: therapeutic cloning, reproductive
cloning.
22. Is evolution a fact, theory, or a hypothesis? Explain.
23. What is the presenilin 1 gene? Why did the neurologists decide not to
make the gene test results available to the rural Colombians?
24. Will identical twins with identical genes have identical brains? Why or
why not?