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What is extinction? correct answer: The loss or death of a species What is mass extinction? correct answer: A decline in biodiversity greater than the background extinction rate What is background extinction? correct answer: Background extinction occurs when certain populations are reduced to zero because of normal environment change, emerging disease, predation pressure, or competition with another species How are mass extinctions detected and how many have been detected? correct an...

Natural selection: Basic requirement for natural selection to occur in a population: organisms in the same population must differ from one another in their heritable traits. Examples of natural selection and evolution at work include which of the following? -The case of the bacteria Staphylococcus aureus resistance to first penicillin, then methicillin, and now vancomycin. -Housefly resistance to DDT within a decade of its introduction. -Weed resistance to herbicides. -The progression of ...

Bio 181 ASU Exam 3 Questions with complete solutions List the 4 types of glial cells and list a phrase to describe their function. - answer1. Schwann cells wrap around the axon of a cell in the PNS, while providing electrical insulation. 2. Oligodendrocytes do the same thing as Schwann cells but they do it in the CNS. 3. Astrocytes protect the brain from toxic chemicals. 4. Microgilia protect the brain. T/F When the presynaptic cells contacts a muscle cell, the synapse area is called a mo...

BIO 182 ASU Exam 1 (Prof. Weaver) Already Graded A+ Key Point 1 Even the most desperate organisms share some features, suggesting that the single, nine random process generated diversity. True or False #1: biodiversity on earth will likely decrease in the near future. True! Fingerprints of human activity, spread of an invasive species, Rapid change and global climate, habitat destruction, Deforestation What are the Three World Views? 1. Natural Evolution - Evolution by natural process2. ...

BIO 181 (Capco ASU) Exam 3 (Final Exam) Questions with Verified Solutions Briefly explain why the action potential flows only from the axon hillock to the terminal web. The action potential originates from the axon hillock which initiates the flow of the action potential because of the presence of higher density voltage-gated ion channels. Draw a neuron, and label all the parts as described in lecture. Draw an action potential in the axon of a neuron and indicate which ions flow int...

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Lamarck's model of evolution is best described as a mathematical model. correct answer: True Given Lamarck's model, biologist used deduction to infer how elephants used their trunks. correct answer: True Lamarck's model conflicts with a worldview of theistic (God-guided) evolutions. correct answer: True Lamarck's worldview could have been described as creationism correct answer: False Lamarck's model likely lost its appeal to biologists because the evidence for Drawing's mo...