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Exam 1 Questions and Answers for WMAN 224, Exams of Nursing

A set of exam questions and answers for the course wman 224. It covers a wide range of topics related to evolutionary biology, including concepts introduced by darwin, evidence of natural selection, the classification of life, and the characteristics of various vertebrate groups such as hagfish, lampreys, placoderms, and chondrichthyes (cartilaginous fishes). Detailed information on the correct answers to these exam questions, indicating that the student has already passed this exam. The level of detail and the breadth of topics covered suggest that this document could be useful as study notes, lecture notes, or a summary for students preparing for a similar exam in an evolutionary biology or vertebrate zoology course.

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Download Exam 1 Questions and Answers for WMAN 224 and more Exams Nursing in PDF only on Docsity! WMAN 224 Exam 1 questions well answered already passed What concepts did Darwin bring to the table - correct answer ✔✔survival of the fittest, descent with modification bottleneck effect - correct answer ✔✔dramatic reduction in population size founder effect - correct answer ✔✔change in allele frequencies due to migration of a species what is true of natural selection - correct answer ✔✔its easier to subtract than add, and its easier to modify than add analogous characteristics - correct answer ✔✔derived independently, same function homologous structures describe - correct answer ✔✔relatedness symplesiomorphy - correct answer ✔✔shared primitive characteristics, traits unchanged from an ancestor that are inherited automorphy - correct answer ✔✔unique, derived traits why is automorphy beneficial - correct answer ✔✔tells us lineage is different, cant link lineages evolutionarily synapomorphy - correct answer ✔✔shared, derived characteristic, traits different from an ancestor and shared by 2 or more lineages convergent evolution - correct answer ✔✔external forces create similar species and niches divergent evolution - correct answer ✔✔a single colonization event leads to divergent populations species - correct answer ✔✔individuals that look similar, occupy the same niche, and interbreed 2 types of speciation mechanisms - correct answer ✔✔postzygotic, prezygotic prezygotic barriers - correct answer ✔✔habitat isolation, temporal isolation, behavioral isolation, mechanical isolation, gametic isolation postzygotic barriers - correct answer ✔✔no offspring, offspring not viable, inbreeding how many species have been described - correct answer ✔✔1.5 million how many species not described - correct answer ✔✔2-100 million species 3 pieces of evidence of natural selection from grant and grant - correct answer ✔✔drosophilia genotypes affected by climate, gene frequencies vary, natural selection is a causal agent 3 domains of life - correct answer ✔✔bacteria, archaea, eukarya kingdoms - correct answer ✔✔animalia, plantae, fungi, protozoa, chromista systematics - correct answer ✔✔study of diversification of life forms True or false: Vertebrates make up a fraction of biodiversity - correct answer ✔✔True, around 4% What makes a cordate - correct answer ✔✔notochord, dorsal hollow nerve chord, pharyngeal gill slits, segmented muscular postanal tail, endostyle Ampullae of Lorenzini - correct answer ✔✔special sensing organs called electroreceptors, forming a network of jelly-filled canals; these organs help sharks sense electric fields in the water tapetum lucidum - correct answer ✔✔eye shine 3 sensory systems of chondricthyes - correct answer ✔✔tapetum lucidum, nictating membrane, lateral line lateral line - correct answer ✔✔senses changes in water pressure isomolal - correct answer ✔✔isotonic- body fluids and environment at equilibrium hyposmolal - correct answer ✔✔hypotonic, body fluid concentration lower than surrounding environment hypermolal - correct answer ✔✔hypertonic, body fluid concentration higher than surrounding environment osmoregulation - correct answer ✔✔water follows the solute, water crosses semi permeable membrane what class keeps urea in body to balance osmotic pressure - correct answer ✔✔condricthyes what class practices constant tooth replacement - correct answer ✔✔condricthyes Subclass Holocephali - correct answer ✔✔chimeras and ratfish Subclass Holocephali characteristics - correct answer ✔✔strange deepwater group, venomous first dorsal spine Subclass Elasmobranchii - correct answer ✔✔sharks, skates, rays Subclass Elasmobranchii characteristics - correct answer ✔✔diverse reproduction, reach sexual maturity late in life, hyostillic jaw suspension, mostly ectothermic, many are top tier predators, parthogenesis can occur rete mirabile - correct answer ✔✔allows shark to be endothermic due to capillaries between swimming muscles Superorder Batoidea - correct answer ✔✔skates and rays superorder batoidea characteristics - correct answer ✔✔dorsoventrally compressed, euhyostyly Euhostyly - correct answer ✔✔no direct contact of upper jaw with cranium differences between skates and rays - correct answer ✔✔skates have a 2 lobed pelvic fin, stocky tail, are egg laying, and have a prominent dorsal sin Superorder Squalomorphi - correct answer ✔✔shark like, no anal fin, primitive