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Bio 316 Exam 1 WKU Q&A | Verified | Updated 2024 | Rated A+ 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 pr...

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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

- Wrote Histoire Naturelle (noted that different areas support different kinds

of animals and plants regardless of environmental similarities)

Industrial Revolution - ✔✔- Paved way for efforts to locate valuable

minerals

- Rise of urbanization

- Onset of population growth

- Being produced for the first time: steel (more jobs/money)

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