Video - DNA

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Listen to the video and write the letter of your choice:

 

 

 

 

 

1. We somehow maintain ancestral habits, how does it show in Southern California winters?

a) People go to the shopping malls.

b) People eat as much as they can like our ancestors did.

c) People behave differently to people in the north of America.

d) People are mainly worried with stocking up food.

 

2. About the reasons why we behave in modern times the way we do:

a) everybody agrees is a matter of evolutionary adaptation.

b) there is not agreement among the scientists.

c) nobody can really explain them.

d) things are so different now that we have nothing to do with our ancestors.

 

3. The study of the DNA can explain:

a) how human beings have been able to survive.

b) when human beings conquered nature.

c) the specific features that distinguish us from other animals.

d) the truth of the evolutionary theory.

 

4. When the analysis of the DNA sequences wasn’t done with the help of computers:

a) it wasn’t very clear the genome project was ever going to be achieved.

b) progress was slow but accurate.

c) lots of more people had to work to get the same results.

d) results were only based on guessing.

 

5. Eventually the genome project could succeed because:

a) Scientists all over the world helped the American team.

b) New computers were used to crack the code.

c) Watson managed to convinced the Congress to fund the lab.

d) Watson just wanted to finish the job he had started years ago.