After Darwin Quiz - Step III

1. Division of the cell nucleus with DNA replication, maintaining the diploid state with two chromosome sets:

   a.) meiosis;
   b.) photosynthesis;
   c.) mitosis;
   d.) sequencing;
   e.) polymerization.
   

2. All the DNA in an organism, including its genes:

   a.) genome;
   b.) genetic code;
   c.) protein;
   d.) chromosome;
   e.) RNA.
   

3. Polycystic kidney disease is:

   a.) a recessive disorder, gene on chromosome 7;
   b.) a dominant disorder, gene on chromosome 16;
   c.) a recessive disorder, gene on chromosome 11;
   d.) a dominant disorder, gene on chromosome X;
   e.) a dominant disorder, gene on chromosome 4.
   

4. The impossibility of characterizing a population by a set of alleles demonstrates that:

   a.) the notion of "human races" has scientific value;
   b.) the notion of a fundamental genetic difference between humans is well-founded;
   c.) the notion of "human races" has only partial scientific value;
   d.) the notion of "human races" is valid;
   e.) the notion of "human races" has no scientific value.
   

5. Edward O. Wilson, professor of zoology at Harvard University, is the father of:

   a.) radiotherapy;
   b.) sociobiology;
   c.) molecular biology;
   d.) human genetics;
   e.) gene therapy.
   

6. The study of social behaviour on the basis of genetics:

   a.) sociophysics;
   b.) sociomedecine;
   c.) sociobiology;
   d.) sociophilosophy;
   e.) sociology.
   

7. A mutation is:

   a.) a slow and permanent alteration of hereditary traits, through change "in the number or quality of the genes";
   b.) an abrupt and temporary alteration of hereditary traits, through change "in the number or quality of the genes";
   c.) an abrupt and permanent alteration of hereditary traits, with no change "in the number or quality of the genes";
   d.) an abrupt and permanent alteration of hereditary traits, through change "in the number or quality of the genes";
   e.) an abrupt and temporary alteration of hereditary traits, with no change "in the number or quality of the genes".
   

8. He was the first to advance a coherent theory of the evolution of the species:

   a.) Charles Darwin;
   b.) Thomas Huxley;
   c.) Jean-Baptiste Lamarck;
   d.) Louis Leakey;
   e.) Erasmus Darwin.
   

9. Founder of the famous English magazine Nature, he was the leading exponent of Darwin's theory of evolution in England:

   a.) Thomas Huxley;
   b.) Erasmus Darwin;
   c.) Jean-Baptiste Lamarck;
   d.) Eugène Dubois;
   e.) A. Leroi-Gourhan.
   

10. According to Darwin, our origins are:

    a.) European
    b.) African;
    c.) Asian;
    d.) American;
    e.) extraterrestrial.
    

11. The publication of this work in 1859 provoked controversy in England and marked the beginning of evolutionism's success:

    a.) The Philosophy of Zoology;
    b.) A Natural History of Invertebrates
    c.) Research on the Structure of Living Organisms
    d.) The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex;
    e.) The Origin of the Species.
    

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