First Test Study Material

Question 1

The scientist who believed in natural selection and evolution

Answer 1

Charles Darwin

Question 2

Scientist that used binomial nomenclature

Answer 2

Carolus Linnaeus

Question 3

the evaluation of similar structures across a variety of species, using fossils and comparing them to extant (still in existence) species.

Answer 3

comparative anatomy

Question 4

anatomical structures that functioned in an ancestor, but have lost most or all their function. Example: the internal useless leg bones in the glass lizard and the vestigial leg bones of whales.

Answer 4

vestigial structures

Question 5

Scientist who use paleontology to prove evolution

Answer 5

Baron Georges Cuvier

Question 6

the genetic change of a species over time

Answer 6

Evolution

Question 7

He Propose the idea of inheritance of acquired characteristics but it was not true

Answer 7

Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck

Question 8

What is inheritance of acquired characteristics

Answer 8

the idea that the environment can produce physical changes in an organism in its lifetime that are inheritable.

Question 9

a geologist who proposed a theory of slow, uniform geological change. This contrasted with the belief in catastrophism.

Answer 9

Charles Lyell

Question 10

he proposed that the sizes of human populations were limited only by quantity of resources, such as food, water, and shelter, available to support it. He also stated that famine, war, and epidemics happen when populations overstretch their limited resources.

Answer 10

Thomas Malthus

Question 11

the study of geographic distribution of organisms throughout the world and can give hints to past geological events, such as continental drift, formation of islands from volcanos, and ecological change, such as river formation and glaciation.

Answer 11

Biogeography

Question 12

Organisms exhibit variation that can be passed from one generation to the next – that is, they have inheritable variation.
• Organismscompeteforavailableresources.
• Individuals within a population differ in terms of their reproductive success.
• Organisms become adapted to conditions as the environment changes

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Principles of natural selection

Question 13

the reproductive success of an individual relative to other members of a population or if they’ve got pretty spots they get more females

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Fitness

Question 14

any evolved trait that helps an organism to be more suited to its environment.

Answer 14

Adaptation

Question 15

Humans artificially modify traits in plants and animals for human benefit. This type of human-controlled
breeding to increase desired traits

Answer 15

artificial selection.

Question 16

evolution can happen through mutations: T or F

Answer 16

True

Question 17

This type of natural selection where extreme traits are selected and change which can live in that environment: example, moth covered in soot during industrial revolution

Answer 17

Directional selection