Evolution 4802

Fall 2008

Final exam questions

Please be prepared to answer one of these two questions on the final exam.

1. The heritability of an animal’s preference for different habitats or host plants might be high or low.
1. Why might the heritability be high (one paragraph)?
2. Why might the heritability be low (one paragraph)?
3. How might heritabilityaffect the likelihood of sympatric speciation by divergence in habitat or host preference (one paragraph).
2. How has the study evolution enhanced your understanding of the biological sciences in general?
1. Provide a general answer to this question in one paragraph.
2. Provide two examples that illustrate your point that have come from lecture, the book, or EvoBeaker in two additional paragraphs (one paragraph per example).