Bio 316 Exam 1 WKU Questions and
Answers
Evolution
✓ ~~~ The gradual change in a species over time
Facts
✓ ~~~ Observations accepted as truth, and better if confirmed repeatedly
Hypotheses
✓ ~~~ Testable statement that can be supported or rejected (falsified)
Falsified
✓ ~~~ Able to be probed false
Theories
✓ ~~~ Testable via observation and experimentation, falsifiable, subject to revision and
adjustments, and cannot be proven (only supported or falsified)
Laws
✓ ~~~ Accepted generalizations that describe natural phenomena
1. Facts
2. Hypotheses
3. Theories
4. Laws
, ✓ ~~~ What are the four components of science?
Biology
✓ ~~~ The study of life
Biological evolution
✓ ~~~ Change in populations overtime
Evolutionary biology
✓ ~~~ Branch of biology that assesses how populations change over time
Microevolution
✓ ~~~ Change in allele frequencies within populations
Macroevolution
✓ ~~~ Larger scale change, providing evidence of how we assess relationships between
taxa (species through domains)
Microevolution vs. Macroevolution
✓ ~~~ Change in the gene pool of a population over several generations / large scale
changes in a population that leads to the evolution of a new species
Ancient Greeks
✓ ~~~ ______ ______ were among the first to study the natural world. They were the first
scientists
Anaximander (610-546 BC)
, ✓ ~~~ Early Greek naturalist who advocated...
- Early animals rose from the ocean
- Humans came from the mouths of giant fish
- Complexity rose from simple life
Aristole (384-322 BC)
✓ ~~~ Advocated...
- The importance of observation
- Wrote "History of Animals" - describing and classifying animals
- Wrote "Scala Naturae" - organizing living things along scales of "perfection"
Aristotle
✓ ~~~ Who was the first to classify animals?
During the renaissance period (1300-1700)
✓ ~~~ When did the rise of natural theology occur?
Archbishop James Usher
✓ ~~~ Calculated earths age based on biblical genealogies, determining in 1650 that earth
was 5,654 years old
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
✓ ~~~ - Suggested that the earth was much older than previously believed
- In 1779, made a new estimate of earth age of 75,000 years old
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