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Evolution is the unifying concept of biology correct answers Dobzhansky Ophelia Syndrome correct answers Being told what to do or how to think; Thomas Plummer What are the six cures to Ophelia Syndrome? correct answers 1. Seek out great teachers 2. Dare to know and trust yourself 3. Learn to live with uncertainty (Science exists because of what we don't know) 4. Practice dialectical thinking; Put yourself in their shoes 5. Foster idle thinking (Alfred Russel Wallace codiscovered natural selection while sick in a bed in Malay) 6. Plan to step out of bounds (Question presumed bounds of thinking, reading, writing, or learning) Theory of Evolution correct answers the idea that all species are related and gradually change over time What are the 7 evidences for Evolution? correct answers 1. Nested hierarchical structure of life (Gave rise to binomial nomenclature) 2.Evidence for extinction 3. Succession of fossil types 4. Geographical relationships of similar species (Sarawak law) - Similar species come from similar places 5. Shared embryonic features (Haeckel) 6. Common design blueprints for structures with different function (homologous structures) 7. Vestigial organs -- appendix (loss of function, not loss of structure) & Atavisms -- tail (ancestral trait reappears) binomial nomenclature correct answers Carolus Linnaeus classification based on shared similarities Thomas Molyneux correct answers First to describe extinct irish elk Cuvier correct answers list of 23 extinct species in 1801 Charles Lyell correct answers proponent of uniformitarianism Uniformitarianism correct answers geologic processes have not changed throughout Earth's history. Lyell's Principles of Succession correct answers 1. Superposition: bottom layers older than top layers 2. cross cutting structure is younger than layer it crosses 3. structure included is older than structure holding it
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