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Ecology and Evolution Exam 1 Questions & Answers

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Ecology and Evolution

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Ecology And Evolution

Darwin - ANSWERShis insights formed the foundations of evolutionary history contributions Darwin - ANSWERShe went to medical school in Edinburgh and was interested in nature Darwin - ANSWERStrained to become a clergyman at Cambridge Voyage of the Beagle - ANSWERSmission to expand Navy's kn...

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Ecology and Evolution Exam 1
Questions & Answers
Darwin - ANSWERShis insights formed the foundations of evolutionary history
contributions

Darwin - ANSWERShe went to medical school in Edinburgh and was interested in
nature

Darwin - ANSWERStrained to become a clergyman at Cambridge

Voyage of the Beagle - ANSWERSmission to expand Navy's knowledge of natural
resources in foreign lands

voyage of the Beagle - ANSWERSexpedition that took 5 years and toured around the
southern hemisphere. Darwin was on this voyage

Darwin concluded that biological evolution occurs - ANSWERSDarwin's observations
led him to conclude that:

uniformitarianism - ANSWERSobservable natural processes responsible for events in
the past

Darwin on the Beagle - ANSWERSstudied geology while reading Principles of Geology
by Lyell

Georges Buffon - ANSWERSsuggested that Earth formed according to laws of physics
and chemistry making it older than previously thought

Georges Buffon - ANSWERSsuggested that life emerges as distinct types

Georges Buffon - ANSWERSsuggested that environment acts directly on an organism,
last species, human evolution, and common ancestor

Naturalists - ANSWERSEarly _____ classified life's diversity

Carl Linnaeus - ANSWERSfather of taxonomy

Nicolas Steno - ANSWERSfounder of geology/paleontology, rock formation

Nicolas Steno - ANSWERSquestioned the idea that fossils grew in the ground (tongue
stones = shark teeth)

,Nicolas Steno - ANSWERSrecognized record of historical change

Strata - ANSWERSsedimentary rock layers

Geologists - ANSWERS______ recognized that change was gradual

James Hutton - ANSWERSsuggested that processes produce small changes over time
= earth must be old

William Smith - ANSWERSsuggested that rock layers different ages with different
fossils

Charles Lyell - ANSWERSwrote book Darwin read on Beagle

Paleontology - ANSWERS____ provided evidence that life changed

Georges Cuvier - ANSWERSfounding father of Paleontology

Georges Cuvier - ANSWERSsuggested that fossils resemble modern species, but are
not the same

Georges Cuvier - ANSWERSsuggested species extinction

catastrophism - ANSWERScatastrophe kills old - new pops up

Georges Cuvier - ANSWERSproposed idea of Catastrophism but was missing the link
on the process

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck - ANSWERSgiraffe dude

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck - ANSWERSsuggested that life was driven simple to complex

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck - ANSWERSsuggested that complex species were descended
from microbes

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck - ANSWERSsuggested that microbes continually generated
spontaneously

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck - ANSWERSsuggested that adaptation occurs through
inheritance of acquired changes

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck - ANSWERShis idea was not supported: people were blinded in
an accident would have blind children

modern genetics - ANSWERSphenotypic changes acquired during the lifetime do not
result in genetic changes

, Descent with modification (evolution) - ANSWERSonce Darwin accepted that Earth
must be very old after gathering fossils on his voyage he came up with the idea of:

descent with modification (evolution) - ANSWERSidea that allowed Darwins whole
theory to begin to take shape

descent with modification (evolution) - ANSWERSidea that species are not fixed, but
change over time

speciation - ANSWERSformation of a new species

speciation - ANSWERSoccurs because the isolated population evolved independent of
the mainland population

Alfred Russel Wallace - ANSWERSDarwin was prompted to go public with his ideas
because of whom

Alfred Russel Wallace - ANSWERSa letter from whom proposed similar evolutionary
ideas to Darwin

Alfred Russel Wallace - ANSWERSwho suggested these ideas similar to Darwin
-common ancestry
-natural selection

20 years - ANSWERShow long did Darwin wait after the HMS Beagle to publish his
ideas

Alfred Russel Wallace - ANSWERSconceived the idea of "survival of the fittest"

Darwin and Wallace - ANSWERSwho presented a joint paper to the Linnaean Society

Darwin and Wallace - ANSWERSwho announced to the world that species evolve
through natural selection with common descent

Phylogenetics - ANSWERSallows for the reconstruction of evolutionary history by
depicting possible historical relationships between species

phylogenetics - ANSWERSoften represented in branching relationships within a tree

synapomorphies - ANSWERStraits that have been derived from a recent common
ancestor

synapomorphies - ANSWERSused to reconstruct phylogenetic trees

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