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Most Anthropology 201 exams are cumulative with greater emphasis on the last section of the course. This quiz includes some questions from the first two sections, but it is highly recommended practice using Midterm I and Midterm II quizzes for materials from the past. If your final exam is not cumulative, please ignore questions that do not apply to your exam. Some questions may have explanations on where and what section of the textbook is used for the question.
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Anthropology 201 (ANTH 201-UCAL) Final Exam
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Question 1 |
A | They are cheek bones. |
B | They are knuckles sued for walking on land. |
C | They are tail bones that connect the rest of the tail to the skeleton. |
D | They are bone like structures that provide strength to tails of arboreal animals. |
Question 2 |
A | Gibbons |
B | Chimpanzee |
C | Orangutan |
D | Bonobo |
Question 3 |
A | Giving birth to twins. |
B | Decreased care of infants by fathers. |
C | Sexual monomorphism |
D | Infant parking. |
Question 4 |
A | Preservation of complete organisms. |
B | Very clear and complete record of paleobiological record. |
C | Organic structures are well preserved by the precipitating minerals around it. |
D | Organic structures are completely destroyed by replacing minerals. |
Question 5 |
A | True |
B | False |
Question 6 |
A | Female bias |
B | All of the answers are incorrect. |
C | Dual sex bias |
D | Male bias |
Question 7 |
A | 3.5 billion years ago |
B | 135 million years ago |
C | 225 million years ago |
D | 65 million years ago |
E | 4.3 billion years ago |
Question 8 |
A | False |
B | True |
C | Neither true nor false because it depends on the population in question. |
Chapter 4 - Speciation and Phylogeny
Question 9 |
A | Primitive dental formula 2.1.3.3/2.1.2.3, which has been retained in Old World monkeys. |
B | Primitive dental formula 1.0.1.0/1.0.0.3, which has been retained in Old World monkeys. |
C | Primitive dental formula 2.1.3.3/2.1.2.3, which has been retained in New World monkeys. |
D | Primitive dental formula 1.0.1.0/1.0.0.3, which has been retained in New World monkeys. |
E | Primitive dental formula 2.1.3.3/1.1.3.3, which has been retained in Old World monkeys. |
Question 10 |
A | Seed-producing plants that also produce flowers. |
B | Seed-producing plants such as pine and fir. |
C | A defective primate sperm that will lead to undesirable offspring. |
D | Group of plants that produce high energy food for primates. |
E | Group of plants with deep complex roots. |
Question 11 |
A | all green yellow pea plants in the F2 generation. |
B | 3/4 green pea plants and 1/4 yellow pea plants in the F1 generation. |
C | 3/4 yellow and 1/4 green plants in the F2 generation. |
D | all green pea plants in the F1 generation. |
Question 12 |
A | Permian |
B | Triassic |
C | Cretaceous |
D | Jurassic |
E | Devonian |
Question 13 |
A | Charles Lyell |
B | Jean Baptiste-Lamarck |
C | Georges Cuvier |
D | Charles Darwin |
Question 14 |
A | None of the answers posted here are correct. |
B | Genetically, they have much less common genes with modern day primates. |
C | Genetically, they are inferior to the Old World monkeys. |
D | It is difficult to explain how they arrived in South America because of the vast oceans that separate landmasses. |
Question 15 |
A | The sex that stays in the natal group their entire lives. |
B | The sex that is recessive. |
C | The sex that is dominant. |
D | The sex that disperses at sexual maturity. |
Question 16 |
A | Cambrian |
B | Triassic |
C | Permian |
D | Devonian |
E | Ordovician |
Question 17 |
A | Carbon |
B | Nitrogen |
C | Isotopic oxygen 18 |
D | Hydrogen |
E | Isotopic oxygen 16 |
Question 18 |
A | Gondwanaland |
B | Supercontinent |
C | Laurasia |
D | Pangaea |
Question 19 |
A | Hominoidea |
B | Cebidae |
C | Cercopithecoidea |
D | Cercopithecinae |
Question 20 |
A | Carbon-14 dating |
B | Thermoluminescence |
C | Electron-spin-resonance |
D | Potassium–argon |
E | Uranium |
Question 21 |
A | speciation. |
B | new traits being passed on to the next generation. |
C | new habitat development. |
D | no idea |
E | increased competition. |
Question 22 |
A | Electron-spin-resonance dating |
B | Thermoluminescence dating |
C | Potassium–argon dating |
D | Carbon-14 dating |
Question 23 |
A | the visual predation theory. |
B | the terminal branch theory. |
C | the arboreal theory. |
D | the angiosperm radiation theory. |
Question 24 |
A | Jam monkeys |
B | Squirrel monkeys |
C | Howler monkeys |
D | Chimpanzees |
Question 25 |
A | directional selection. |
B | disruptive selection. |
C | stabilizing selection. |
D | environmental selection. |
Question 26 |
A | Jean Baptiste-Lamarck |
B | Charles Lyell |
C | Georges Cuvier |
D | Charles Darwin |
Question 27 |
A | even though species can change, they all have a common ancestor. |
B | the world was created 6,000 years ago. |
C | sudden changes to the environment can result in extinction of some species and repopulation by completely a new one |
D | the geological forces that influenced the world long time ago continue to influence the world today. |
Question 28 |
A | False |
B | True |
Question 29 |
A | men |
B | males |
C | individuals |
D | species |
E | females |
Question 30 |
A | mutation |
B | gene flow |
C | genetic drift |
D | interbreeding |
Question 31 |
A | cladistic systtematics. |
B | evangelical taxonomy. |
C | the great chain of being. |
D | natural organization. |
Question 32 |
A | genetic drift, inheritance, gene mutation |
B | variation, inheritance, over-production |
C | variation, directional selection, disruptive selection |
D | variation, genetic drift, gene mutation |
Question 33 |
A | 0.35 A and 0.65 a |
B | 0.5 A and 0.5 a |
C | 0.25 a and 0.75 A |
D | 0.65 A and 0.35 a |
E | 0.75 A and 0.25 a |
Question 34 |
A | the monkeys are the direct ancestors of modern humans. |
B | no clue what you are asking here! |
C | acquired characteristics are heritable. |
D | morphological structures change according to use. |
Question 35 |
A | During Oligocene epoch. |
B | During Eocene epoch. |
C | During Paleocene epoch. |
D | During Pleistocene epoch. |
E | During Miocene epoch. |
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