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Ontogeny - Quiz
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  • 1. What does ontogeny primarily refer to?
A) The study of ancient fossils
B) The extinction patterns of organisms
C) The evolutionary history of a species
D) The origination and development of an organism
  • 2. What is the distinction between ontogeny and phylogeny?
A) Ontogeny is individual development; phylogeny is species evolution
B) Ontogeny refers only to plants, while phylogeny refers to animals
C) They refer to the exact same biological process
D) Ontogeny is species evolution; phylogeny is individual development
  • 3. When does ontogeny typically begin for an organism?
A) At the time of birth or hatching
B) At the onset of puberty
C) At the end of the organism's lifespan
D) At the time of fertilization
  • 4. Who coined the term ontogeny?
A) Ernst Haeckel
B) Julian Huxley
C) Nikolaas Tinbergen
D) Charles Darwin
  • 5. In what decade was the term ontogeny coined?
A) 1890s
B) 1860s
C) 1920s
D) 1830s
  • 6. What does the suffix '-geny' mean in the context of the word ontogeny?
A) Genesis or origin
B) End or death
C) Growth or expansion
D) Survival or adaptation
  • 7. Which of these is considered an aspect of ontogeny?
A) Natural selection
B) Population migration
C) Macroevolution
D) Morphogenesis
  • 8. What did Ernst Haeckel suggest in his biogenetic law?
A) Species evolve without any developmental changes
B) Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny
C) Ontogeny is independent of phylogeny
D) Phylogeny recapitulates ontogeny
  • 9. According to the text, which biologist reversed Haeckel's relationship between ontogeny and phylogeny?
A) Nikolaas Tinbergen
B) Walter Garstang
C) Charles Darwin
D) Julian Huxley
  • 10. What is Nikolaas Tinbergen's contribution regarding ontogeny?
A) Proposing the concept of natural selection
B) Discovering the structure of DNA
C) Inventing the field of embryology
D) Naming it as one of the four primary questions of biology
  • 11. What does the term 'morphogenesis' refer to?
A) The study of species extinction
B) The development of form and shape of an organism
C) The classification of organisms
D) The movement of organisms
  • 12. Why did Tinbergen warn against using the word 'innate'?
A) It is often misleading
B) It is too technical
C) It contradicts the theory of evolution
D) It refers only to plant development
  • 13. Which field uses ontogeny to describe the process through which we embody the history of our own making?
A) Astronomy
B) Physics
C) Anthropology
D) Geology
  • 14. In cell biology, what does the term ontogeny describe?
A) The death of worn-out cells
B) The mutation of genetic material
C) The division of the nucleus
D) The development of various cell types
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