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6. What are the four nucleotide molecules in DNA?

  • Adenine, Thymine, Guanine and Cytocine
  • Guanines and Cytonies, Guanine and Cytocine
  • Adenies. Thyones, Guanines and Cytonies
  • Adenine, Thymine, Guanines and Cytonies

7. Who stood more upright the Homo Habilis or the Homo Erectus?

  • They were equal
  • Homo Erectus
  • Homo Habilis
  • I don't know

8. When an egg and sperm meet what happens to the Chromosomes?

  • They "pair up"
  • The repel each other until only one is dominant
  • They merge
  • They dance

9. What is a problem with Hamilton (1964,1970) and Maynard Smith (1964) ''s Kin selection theory?

  • It doesn't account for psychopaths
  • It assumes everyone is selfless
  • It doesn't explain altruism towards strangers and friends
  • It doesn't account for natural disasters

10. What are the four evolutionary forces?

  • Global warming, Competition, Genetic drift and Natural selection
  • Mutation, Migration, Genetic drift and Natural selection
  • Mutation, Migration, Societal pressures and desirability
  • Global warming, Competition, Societal pressures and desirability

11. Organisms vary considerably within and between a species

  • I don't know
  • True
  • False

12. What is the nucleotide molecule beginning with T?

  • Thymine
  • Thyminen
  • Thyones
  • Thyme

13. What is the genotype?

  • The changes in genes over time
  • The changes in an organism's behaviour over time
  • the genetic constitution of an individual organism
  • the set of observable characteristics of an individual resulting from the interaction of its genotype with the environment.

14. Where does Mutation occur?

  • Because of radioactive spiders
  • In reproductive cells
  • In an individual
  • In the Womb

15. Twin studies has helped us looked inheritable behaviours because if we compare MZ twins to DZ twins we can identify behavioural traits with a possible genetic component.

  • True
  • False
  • I don't know

16. How are traits passed on to the new generation?

  • Through culture
  • Through education
  • Through reproduction
  • Through the enviornment

17. What is the "bottom line" of evolution?

  • Status
  • Strength
  • Reproduction
  • Intelligence

18. How many genes do humans have?

  • 2,500
  • 25,000
  • 250,000
  • 2,500,000

19. When does migration happen?

  • When genes get eliminated due to viruses
  • When a gene moves from one population to another
  • When genes cause humans to move to a different environment for which they are better suited
  • When humans move from one environment to another causing them to develop genes which help them better

20. How man chromosomes does each sperm carry?

  • 23
  • 24
  • 20
  • 12