BIOL 3000 Exam 1 Study Guide Exam And All Actual Answers.
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What did the history of genetics begin with? - Answer Observation
How we use animals and plants to improve our daily lives. - Answer Human Observations
Society grows from _______________ - Answer Observation
How science can shape social and political ideas. - Answer Science and...
BIOL 3000 Exam 1 Study Guide Exam
And All Actual Answers.
What did the history of genetics begin with? - Answer Observation
How we use animals and plants to improve our daily lives. - Answer Human Observations
Society grows from _______________ - Answer Observation
How science can shape social and political ideas. - Answer Science and Society.
Society plays a role in what scientists ____ ____ __________ ___. - Answer Can and cannot do.
Where was the beginning of civilization? - Answer Middle East
Humans interacting with animals and agriculture. - Answer Domestication
When did science begin? - Answer When humans began to domesticate
History can be seen through what? - Answer Symbol Drawings
What was one of the first animals to be domesticated and what else was domesticated around that
time? - Answer Gazelles; Goats and Sheep
What were dogs domesticated for? - Answer Raised for food and protection
Where did global domestication begin? - Answer Europe, Asia, and North America
,What was one of the biggest and most important domestications? - Answer Dogs
Where did the domestication of camels and reindeer first take place? - Answer Eurasia and the Middle
East
Why was the domestication of camels and reindeer so important? - Answer Allowed humans to trade
and move
Flood plain; good for growing; 3 major rivers. - Answer Mesopotamia
Which was bigger, animal or plant domestication? - Answer Plant
What was one of the 1st plants to be domesticated? - Answer Cereal Grain
How was cereal grain domesticated? - Answer Selective Breeding
Where was cereal grain domesticated? - Answer Granaries and Silos
Why was the domestication of cereal grain important? - Answer Huge technology leap for mankind
Found evidence of orchards; important dietary supplement for desert. - Answer Date palms
The creation of domestication caused life to become what? - Answer Life became easier because there
were more available food sources
Aqueducts built to flood certain fields. - Answer Irrigation
Domestication was the first time we saw what begin to grow? - Answer Cities leading to more
observation
,What was the observation of cattle that lead to a hypothesis (>~9,000 BCE)? - Answer Horns got
shorter over time
Domestication allowed mankind to think leading to what? - Answer Theories of Heredity
What was the first theory of heredity? - Answer Spontaneous Generation (>5000-1859)
Living structures form without descent from similar organisms; just shows up. - Answer Spontaneous
Generation
Old meat bones -> Worms -> Flies
This is an example of what? - Answer Spontaneous Generation
Bread crumb example of spontaneous generation. - Answer Jean Babtist van Helmont - Put bread
crumbs in cloth in the dark corner and you will have mice; ~1600; Chemist; Wrote book with recipes for
spontaneous generation.
What experiment proved spontaneous generation wrong through contamination? - Answer "Swan
Neck Experiment" - Pasteur
How did the "Swan Neck Experiment" work? - Answer Used a straight neck flask - Dust and
microorganisms were trapped in the bend as the liquid cooled slowly and after a long time the liquid
remained sterile for many years. Tipped the flask- Dust contacts sterile liquid and microorganisms grow
in the liquid.
Organisms will develop from miniature versions of themselves. - Answer Preformationism
Old theories of where life came from. - Answer 1. Thought all animals come from eggs - William Harvey
"On the Generation of Animals"; Odest School; 1651
2. Thought all life began at the moment of creation - Malebranche; 1665
3. Thought person resided in the sperm (Spermist School) - William Harvey "On the Generation of
Animals"; Odest School; 1651
, 4. Thought "all manner of great small vessels, so various and so numerous that I do not doubt that they
be nerves, arteries and veins.." - Antoine van Leeuwenhoek; 1677; came from the development of the
microscope; Thought he saw a head
A tiny human form curled up inside the sperm. - Answer Homunculus (Nicolaas Hartsoeker; 1694)
The theory holds that body cells and structures shed small pieces of themselves which collect in the
reproductive organs prior to fertilization (pieces of organs that fit together during fertilization). - Answer
Pangenesis (Darwin; 1868)
Each organ in the body, throughout an individual's life, produces small particles that contain information
about the organ, how it is used, what it looks like, etc. These gemmules are released from the organ and
travel through the body to the reproductive organs where they congregate and form the original organ. -
Answer Gemmules
Did Darwin like the idea of Pangenesis? Why or why not? - Answer No, it didn't follow the ideas of
natural selection
Inherited traits are determined randomly form a range defined by the two parents. - Answer Blended
Inheritance (1800s)
Pangenesis follows the ideas of what? - Answer Blended Inheritance
Did the ideas of blended inheritance support or object Darwin's Theories of Evolution? - Answer
Directly opposed; No adaptations to environment; Not random
Acquire passed down characteristics. - Answer Acquired Characteristics
Pangenesis follows the ideas of what also? - Answer Acquired Characteristics
An organism can pass characteristics it has acquired throughout its lifetime along to its offspring. -
Answer Lamarckism (1800s)
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