STUDY GUIDE FOR EXAM I – FALL 2006
This Study guide lists the content of each of the 50 questions on the exam.
Use it to focus your attention on these topics. Study for understanding,
not just memorization. Most questions are followed by full sentence responses
to choose from (rather than the usual multiple choice format of one word
or short phrase responses) and will require you to think about concepts,
identify relationships among concepts, and understand processes. Allow yourself
substantial preparation time. Please note that Pp. 396-402 in Chapter 14
(on race) will not be covered on Exam I, but rather, on Exam II. Pp. 403-431
will be covered on Exam I.
1. The first 7 questions cover lecture on the Scopes trial; understand the
background, the Butler law, and the key players
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5. Be familiar with the case of Epperson vs. Arkansas .
6. Be familiar with the case of Mclean v. Arkansas Board of Education.
7. Understand how creationists have responded to these court decisions.
8. The next 6 questions cover chapter 2 of the text book. Understand the state
of knowledge at the time of Darwin 's theory of evolution.
9. Know Lamarck's theory.
10. Know Cuvier's theory.
11. Know Charles Lyell's theory.
12. Know Thomas Malthus' theory.
13. Know the key components of Darwin 's theory of natural selection.
14. The next 5 questions cover genetics (Ch. 3 and lecture). Know the structure
of the cell, chromosomes, and DNA.
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16. Understand the function of the X and Y chromosomes.
17. Know in detail the process of mitosis.
18. Know in detail the process of meiosis
19. Know the structure of DNA.
20. Know the process of DNA replication.
21. Know the process of protein synthesis
22. Understand the structure and role of RNA.
23. Know how crossing over, translocation, deletion, inversion, and duplication
occur; what is the end result of these processes?
24. Know what mutation involves: also know about Trisomy 21 and point mutations.
25. Read the section in the textbook issue "Stem Cell Research: Promise
and Controversy."
26. Know the results of Mendel's experiments (Ch.4), including the F1 and F2
generations.
27. Know Mendel's Principle of Segregation and Principle of Independent Assortment
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29. Understand the genotype and phenotype result of crossing heterozygotes
and homozygotes.
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31. You will be given a punnet square to interpret—know the rules of inheritance.
32. Understand how natural selection works in regard to sickle cell and how
individuals are affected. Be sure to know the different states (homozygous
dominant, homozygous recessive, and heterozygous and how each responds to falciparum
malaria)
33. Know the definition of evolution (see textbook, Ch. 14)
34. Know what the unit of evolution is.
35. Understand the importance of mutations for dominant and recessive traits.
36. Understand the concept of gene pool.
37. There will be a question on the in-class exercise on genetic drift.
38. Understand the concepts mutation, gene flow, genetic drift, founder effect,
Sewall Wright effect.
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40. The next 4 questions are based on the video "Did Darwin Get it Wrong?" Be
familiar with the arguments, especially the creationists, Macbeth, Eldridge.
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44. There will be a question on the story of George Canning's left buttock presented in lecture—what it illustrated, not the details of the story.
45. Understand the Modern Synthesis.
46. From lecture, know the five theories included in Darwin 's synthetic theory
of evolution.
47. Understand the Hardy-Weinberg binomial equation and what it implies.
48. You will be given a population and have to use the Hardy-Weinberg formula
to determine frequencies of traits (I will make it very simple mathematically).
49. Know the forms of Evolution presented in lecture: directional selection,
stabilizing selection, balanced polymorphism, disruptive selection and their
implications for allele frequencies.
50. Understand the concept of polymorphisms covered in Ch. 14 (focus primarily
on their geographical distributions).
Remember that the Exam Study Skills page is on the physical anthropology web site; please review it if you think you need help preparing for exams.