Bio- chapter 11

Question 1

Evolution facts

Answer 1

1. Jean-baptiste Lamarck : Proposed that changes in an animal over its lifetime were inherited
2. Georges Cuvier : proposed catastrophic geologic forces shaped earth’s surface (Catastrophism)
3. Environmental factors affect a species’ traits over time causing changes in a line of descent

Question 2

Fitness

Answer 2

Degree of adaptation to an environment, as measure by an individual’s restive genetic contribution to future generations

Question 3

Fitness fact

Answer 3

Drawing realize in any population individuals have traits that make them better suited to the environment than others. They are more Likely to survive and reproduce

Question 4

Adaptation

Answer 4

Heritable trait that enhances individual’s fitness

Question 5

Natural selection

Answer 5

differential survival and reproduction of individuals or a population that vary in the details of shared, heritable traits.

Question 6

Natural selection facts

Answer 6

Drawing concluded that the process of natural selection through variations in fitness and adaptation is a driving force of evolution

Question 7

Evolution

Answer 7

Change in a line of descent