BIO 220 quiz 2 Solution Manual Fully Solved Latest Update (2025-2026)
Jean baptize Lamarck - Answers This man developed the first cohesive theory of evolution after his
studies of biology, believed species pass on inherited traits
Georges Cuvier - Answers (1769-1832) Largely developed paleontology, the study of fossils. Advocated
catastrophism bad believed in the young earth theory
Charles Lyell - Answers effectively discredited the long-standing view that the earth's surface had been
formed by short-lived cataclysms, such as biblical floods and earthquakes-his principle:
uniformitarianism: same geological processes that are at work today slowly formed the earth's surface
over an immensely long time
James hutton - Answers father of modern geology
Thomas Malthus - Answers Eighteenth-century English intellectual who warned that population growth
threatened future generations because, in his view, population growth would always outstrip increases
in agricultural production.
Alfred Russell Wallace - Answers English naturalist who proposed, independently of Charles Darwin, the
concept of natural selection as a mechanism for evolution and as a way to explain the great variety of
living things
artificial selection - Answers Breeding organisms with specific traits in order to produce offspring with
identical traits.
vestigial structures - Answers remnant of a structure that may have had an important function in a
species' ancestors, but has no clear function in the modern species.
homologies - Answers Similarities between organisms based on descent from a common ancestor.
analogous - Answers similar, but not from the same ancestors
Biogeography - Answers Study of past and present distribution of organisms
endemic - Answers confined to a particular country or area
adaptive radiation - Answers evolution from a common ancestor of many species adapted to diverse
environments
Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium - Answers condition that occurs when the frequency of alleles in a
particular gene pool remain constant over time. no slection, no mutations, no gene flow, random
mating, large population size
Hardy-Weinberg Principle - Answers principle that allele frequencies in a population will remain
constant unless one or more factors cause the frequencies to change
Jean baptize Lamarck - Answers This man developed the first cohesive theory of evolution after his
studies of biology, believed species pass on inherited traits
Georges Cuvier - Answers (1769-1832) Largely developed paleontology, the study of fossils. Advocated
catastrophism bad believed in the young earth theory
Charles Lyell - Answers effectively discredited the long-standing view that the earth's surface had been
formed by short-lived cataclysms, such as biblical floods and earthquakes-his principle:
uniformitarianism: same geological processes that are at work today slowly formed the earth's surface
over an immensely long time
James hutton - Answers father of modern geology
Thomas Malthus - Answers Eighteenth-century English intellectual who warned that population growth
threatened future generations because, in his view, population growth would always outstrip increases
in agricultural production.
Alfred Russell Wallace - Answers English naturalist who proposed, independently of Charles Darwin, the
concept of natural selection as a mechanism for evolution and as a way to explain the great variety of
living things
artificial selection - Answers Breeding organisms with specific traits in order to produce offspring with
identical traits.
vestigial structures - Answers remnant of a structure that may have had an important function in a
species' ancestors, but has no clear function in the modern species.
homologies - Answers Similarities between organisms based on descent from a common ancestor.
analogous - Answers similar, but not from the same ancestors
Biogeography - Answers Study of past and present distribution of organisms
endemic - Answers confined to a particular country or area
adaptive radiation - Answers evolution from a common ancestor of many species adapted to diverse
environments
Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium - Answers condition that occurs when the frequency of alleles in a
particular gene pool remain constant over time. no slection, no mutations, no gene flow, random
mating, large population size
Hardy-Weinberg Principle - Answers principle that allele frequencies in a population will remain
constant unless one or more factors cause the frequencies to change
