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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 does the Latin word "specere" mean?
(a) To specify.
(b) To see.
(c) To be speckled.
(d) To sing.

2. What is the name of the Charles Darwin Research Station's journal?
(a) Noticias del Mar.
(b) Imprimatur Evolutionii.
(c) Noticias de Galapagos.
(d) Darwin Daily.

3. What is "one of the greatest remaining mysteries in biology," according to Weiner?
(a) Origins of the universe.
(b) The missing link.
(c) Pigmentation.
(d) Human consciousness.

4. What do the Grants keep in the freezer in the "sub-subbasement'?
(a) Blood samples.
(b) Hotdogs.
(c) Bacteria.
(d) Ice core samples.

5. In the first paragraph of Chapter 11, Darwin is discussing the hybridization of which animal?
(a) Eagle.
(b) Fox.
(c) Pigeon.
(d) Hawk.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which scientist is mentioned in Chapter 14 as strongly advocating the need for measurement in science?

3. How many E. coli bacteria can grow from one bacterium within eight hours?

4. What is different from farm to farm in the Mississippi Delta?

5. How long did it take flies to develop resistance to the "resistance-proof" pesticides introduced in 1967?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain how bacteria build up resistance to antibiotics.

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

3. Describe the act of "speciation" in the haw flies.

4. Describe the two shorelines that Weiner discusses in Chapter 11.

5. Why do plants hybridize rather readily?

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

7. Describe how Biston betularia changed color and why it is changing back.

8. Explain the humor that the Grants find in the painting Science Is Measurement.

9. What is the significance of Darwin's spelling errors for modern science?

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

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