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WKU Bio 316 Exam 1 Questions andAnswers
How do individuals gather information?
✓ ~~~ What we are told, Faith, and Science.
Components of Science
✓ ~~~ 1.) Facts
✓ 2.) Hypotheses
✓ 3.) Laws
✓ 4.) Theories.
Criteria of Theories
✓ ~~~ 1.) Testable
✓ 2.) Falsifiable
✓ 3.) Subject to revision and adjustments
✓ 4.) Can't be proven- only supported or falsified.
Biology
✓ ~~~ Study of Life
Biological Evolution
✓ ~~~ Change in populations over time
Evolutionary Biology
✓ ~~~ Branch of Biology that assess 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.
Evolution as Fact
✓ ~~~ Evidence of change over time.
(populations can change, time is largely dependent on how long generations take.
Genetic traits are heritable.)
Evolution as Theory
✓ ~~~ Assessing mechanisms of how evolution occurred
(embodies the four primary mechanisms of evolutionary change, and enhances our
capacity to make predictions.)
Anaximander (610-546 BC)
✓ ~~~ Speculated: Early animals rose from the ocean, humans came from the mouths of
giant fish, and complexity rose from simple life.
Aristotle (384-322 BC)
✓ ~~~ Advocated the importance of observation, wrote "History of Animals", also wrote
"Scala Natural"
When did the Rise of Natural Theology occur?
✓ ~~~ During the Renaissance Period. (Earth Age, Divine Creation, Devine Variation)
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