Who was Carl Sagan's doctoral advisor?
Answer
Gerard Kuiper
34719 Intermediate Trivia Questions
34719 public questions at this depth. How many can you answer?
What was the title of Carl Sagan's final book, published posthumously?
Answer
Billions and Billions
What was the name of the laboratory Carl Sagan directed at Cornell University?
Answer
Laboratory for Planetary Studies
What is the name of the asteroid named after Carl Sagan?
Answer
2709 Sagan
In 1990, at Sagan's suggestion, Voyager 1 took a portrait of Earth from how many billion kilometers away?
Answer
6 billion kilometers
What does the acronym SETI stand for, a field Sagan championed?
Answer
Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
Which university did Carl Sagan teach at for most of his career?
Answer
Cornell University
What is the name of natural selection that favors a single extreme phenotype over others?
Answer
directional selection
What is the name of the theory that evolution proceeds in rapid bursts separated by long stable periods?
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Punctuated equilibrium
Which English biologist wrote 'The Selfish Gene'?
Answer
Richard Dawkins
What is the name of the oldest known hominid fossil, dated to 7 million years ago?
Answer
Sahelanthropus tchadensis
Which type of selection reduces variation by eliminating extreme phenotypes?
Answer
Stabilizing selection
Which experiment simulated early Earth conditions to produce amino acids?
Answer
Miller-Urey experiment
What is the name of the process by which eukaryotic cells acquired mitochondria?
Answer
Endosymbiosis
Which fossil fish is a transitional form between fish and tetrapods?
Answer
Tiktaalik
What is the name of the extinct "hobbit" hominid found in Indonesia?
Answer
Homo floresiensis
What type of selection is based on mate choice?
Answer
Sexual selection
What is the term for speciation due to a geographic barrier?
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Allopatric speciation
What species does the fossil "Lucy" belong to?
Answer
Australopithecus afarensis
What is the term for using mutation rates to estimate evolutionary divergence times?
Answer
Molecular clock
What type of natural selection maintains two or more alleles in a population?
Answer
Balancing selection
What is the name of Richard Lenski's ongoing experiment that tracks evolution in E. coli?
Answer
Long-term evolution experiment
What is the term for speciation that occurs without geographic isolation?
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Sympatric speciation
Which hominid species is widely considered the first to leave Africa?
Answer
Homo erectus
What is the term for the rapid evolution of many new species from a single ancestor?
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Adaptive radiation
What is the term for two species evolving in response to each other?
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Coevolution
What is the name of the theory that evolution occurs in rapid bursts?
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Punctuated equilibrium
What is the process where allele frequencies change due to chance?
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Genetic drift
What is the term for traits that have lost their original function?
Answer
Vestigial structures
What type of selection favors extreme phenotypes over intermediate?
Answer
Disruptive selection
What is the term for the evolutionary process where new species form?
Answer
Speciation
What was the name of Niels Bohr's son who died in a sailing accident?
Answer
Christian Bohr
What academy did Niels Bohr preside over from 1939 until his death?
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Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters
What unit of magnetic dipole moment is named after Niels Bohr?
Answer
Bohr magneton
Which physicist co-authored with Niels Bohr a 1939 paper on nuclear fission?
Answer
John Wheeler
At which Solvay Conference did Bohr and Einstein have their famous 1927 debate?
Answer
Fifth Solvay Conference
Who was Niels Bohr's doctoral advisor at the University of Copenhagen?
Answer
Christian Christiansen