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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 | True |
B | False |
Question 2 |
A | Electron-spin-resonance dating |
B | Potassium–argon dating |
C | Thermoluminescence dating |
D | Carbon-14 dating |
Question 3 |
A | Seed-producing plants that also produce flowers. |
B | Group of plants with deep complex roots. |
C | Group of plants that produce high energy food for primates. |
D | A defective primate sperm that will lead to undesirable offspring. |
E | Seed-producing plants such as pine and fir. |
Question 4 |
A | 135 million years ago |
B | 3.5 billion years ago |
C | 65 million years ago |
D | 225 million years ago |
E | 4.3 billion years ago |
Question 5 |
A | increased competition. |
B | speciation. |
C | no idea |
D | new habitat development. |
E | new traits being passed on to the next generation. |
Question 6 |
A | Squirrel monkeys |
B | Jam monkeys |
C | Howler monkeys |
D | Chimpanzees |
Question 7 |
A | None of the answers posted here are correct. |
B | It is difficult to explain how they arrived in South America because of the vast oceans that separate landmasses. |
C | Genetically, they are inferior to the Old World monkeys. |
D | Genetically, they have much less common genes with modern day primates. |
Question 8 |
A | variation, inheritance, over-production |
B | variation, directional selection, disruptive selection |
C | variation, genetic drift, gene mutation |
D | genetic drift, inheritance, gene mutation |
Question 9 |
A | Carbon |
B | Hydrogen |
C | Nitrogen |
D | Isotopic oxygen 18 |
E | Isotopic oxygen 16 |
Question 10 |
A | Charles Lyell |
B | Charles Darwin |
C | Jean Baptiste-Lamarck |
D | Georges Cuvier |
Question 11 |
A | Thermoluminescence |
B | Carbon-14 dating |
C | Uranium |
D | Potassium–argon |
E | Electron-spin-resonance |
Question 12 |
A | Neither true nor false because it depends on the population in question. |
B | False |
C | True |
Chapter 4 - Speciation and Phylogeny
Question 13 |
A | the visual predation theory. |
B | the terminal branch theory. |
C | the arboreal theory. |
D | the angiosperm radiation theory. |
Question 14 |
A | genetic drift |
B | interbreeding |
C | gene flow |
D | mutation |
Question 15 |
A | directional selection. |
B | environmental selection. |
C | disruptive selection. |
D | stabilizing selection. |
Question 16 |
A | Permian |
B | Ordovician |
C | Cambrian |
D | Triassic |
E | Devonian |
Question 17 |
A | Primitive dental formula 1.0.1.0/1.0.0.3, which has been retained in Old World monkeys. |
B | Primitive dental formula 2.1.3.3/1.1.3.3, 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 Old World monkeys. |
D | Primitive dental formula 2.1.3.3/2.1.2.3, which has been retained in New World monkeys. |
E | Primitive dental formula 1.0.1.0/1.0.0.3, which has been retained in New World monkeys. |
Question 18 |
A | Pangaea |
B | Supercontinent |
C | Gondwanaland |
D | Laurasia |
Question 19 |
A | Gibbons |
B | Bonobo |
C | Chimpanzee |
D | Orangutan |
Question 20 |
A | 3/4 green pea plants and 1/4 yellow pea plants in the F1 generation. |
B | all green yellow pea plants in the F2 generation. |
C | 3/4 yellow and 1/4 green plants in the F2 generation. |
D | all green pea plants in the F1 generation. |
Question 21 |
A | False |
B | True |
Question 22 |
A | Georges Cuvier |
B | Charles Lyell |
C | Jean Baptiste-Lamarck |
D | Charles Darwin |
Question 23 |
A | During Paleocene epoch. |
B | During Oligocene epoch. |
C | During Pleistocene epoch. |
D | During Miocene epoch. |
E | During Eocene epoch. |
Question 24 |
A | acquired characteristics are heritable. |
B | the monkeys are the direct ancestors of modern humans. |
C | morphological structures change according to use. |
D | no clue what you are asking here! |
Question 25 |
A | The sex that disperses at sexual maturity. |
B | The sex that stays in the natal group their entire lives. |
C | The sex that is dominant. |
D | The sex that is recessive. |
Question 26 |
A | the world was created 6,000 years ago. |
B | even though species can change, they all have a common ancestor. |
C | the geological forces that influenced the world long time ago continue to influence the world today. |
D | sudden changes to the environment can result in extinction of some species and repopulation by completely a new one |
Question 27 |
A | Dual sex bias |
B | All of the answers are incorrect. |
C | Male bias |
D | Female bias |
Question 28 |
A | They are tail bones that connect the rest of the tail to the skeleton. |
B | They are cheek bones. |
C | They are knuckles sued for walking on land. |
D | They are bone like structures that provide strength to tails of arboreal animals. |
Question 29 |
A | Organic structures are well preserved by the precipitating minerals around it. |
B | Very clear and complete record of paleobiological record. |
C | Organic structures are completely destroyed by replacing minerals. |
D | Preservation of complete organisms. |
Question 30 |
A | Hominoidea |
B | Cercopithecinae |
C | Cercopithecoidea |
D | Cebidae |
Question 31 |
A | 0.25 a and 0.75 A |
B | 0.75 A and 0.25 a |
C | 0.35 A and 0.65 a |
D | 0.65 A and 0.35 a |
E | 0.5 A and 0.5 a |
Question 32 |
A | Decreased care of infants by fathers. |
B | Giving birth to twins. |
C | Sexual monomorphism |
D | Infant parking. |
Question 33 |
A | females |
B | individuals |
C | males |
D | species |
E | men |
Question 34 |
A | natural organization. |
B | cladistic systtematics. |
C | evangelical taxonomy. |
D | the great chain of being. |
Question 35 |
A | Cretaceous |
B | Devonian |
C | Triassic |
D | Jurassic |
E | Permian |
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