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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What plant did the botanist Edgar Anderson study in the Ozarks?
(a) Dandelions.
(b) Creeping phlox.
(c) Lichens.
(d) Spiderwort.

2. On which island do humans not normally live?
(a) Genovesa.
(b) Santa Cruz.
(c) San Cristóbal.
(d) Floreana.

3. When did the ancestors of humans start to walk?
(a) 40 million years ago.
(b) 200,000 years ago.
(c) 6-7 million years ago.
(d) 8000 years ago.

4. What is the name of the mutant gene that helps flies resist DDT?
(a) Mvw.
(b) Env.
(c) Kdr.
(d) Zdp.

5. What does the Latin word "reticulum" mean?
(a) Diversion.
(b) Line.
(c) Net.
(d) Explosion.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Darwin pick up the second volume of Principles of Geology?

2. What do Crossbills eat?

3. How many times has the environment changed as rapidly as in the 20th century?

4. In what month do cacti on Daphne Major start to bloom?

5. What animal does Scott Carroll study?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the place in which the Grants keep finch blood samples.

2. Summarize Gayle Davies' experience with the finches.

3. Answer Weiner's question, "Why are there so many kinds of animals?"

4. Explain the Drosophila experiment and its significance.

5. What is the significance of the finch's songs? Explain in detail.

6. What significance did Hermon Carey Bumpus discover in the sparrows' deaths? What significance did Peter Grant see?

7. Explain how ocean currents affect the Galapagos Islands.

8. Explain how bacteria build up resistance to antibiotics.

9. What did Lewontin and Birch discover about the Dacus tryoni?

10. Describe what Martin Taylor does with the moth samples he receives.

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