Charles lyell - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

ANTH 1001 - Tague - Exam 1 Questions and Answers Already Passed 1. **What principle did Karl von Linne (Carl Linnaeus) advocate regarding species?** - All species were created by God and were fixed in their characteristics, unchangeable. 2. **What theory did Jean Baptiste Lamarck propose regarding inheritance and adaptation?** - Organisms modify organs or establish new ones to meet survival needs. Changes acquired within one's lifetime can be inherited by offspring. 3. **What c...

Bio 101 Final WVU- Evolution Questions and Answers Already Graded A Darwin's dangerous idea evolution by natural selection Why is evolution important? If animals could not evolve we would not be able to survive any better or grow as a species. Explain the changes that occurred in the tree populations and animal populations over time? As time passes, the population adapts and changes to better fit the evolving around them What is evolution? Result of inherited adaptations that e...

Bio 182 Final Exam Questions with Correct Answers Which of the following would be an example of convergent evolution? A. Hummingbird Bill sizes change in the shape to easily fit into flowers B. Competition among finches of Galapagos islands causing speciation C. Anteaters in Australia and anteaters and South America both developing long narrow skulls D. Maple trees migrating northward after glaciers started to recede in North America - Answer-C. Anteaters in Australia and anteaters and ...

Animal Diversity, 8e (Hickman) Chapter 1 Science of Zoology and Evolution of Animal Diversity 1) A characteristic of science is that A) it is not explained by natural laws. B) its hypotheses are testable. C) its conclusions are final. D) it is not falsifiable. E) it seeks to define the vitalistic forces of life. Answer: B Section: 01.01 Topic: Principles of Science Learning Objective: 01.01 Explain that science consists in testing, possibly rejecting, and improving our simplest and be...

absorptive heterotroph - An organism (usually a fungus) that obtains its food by secreting digestive enzymes into the environment to break down large food molecules, then absorbing the breakdown products. acidophile - able to live in extremely acidic environments adaptations - inherited aspects of an individual that allow it to outcompete other members of a population that lack the trait; evolve through natural selection Alfred Russel Wallace - came up with a mechanism for evolution simila...

Aristotle, a philosopher : Pre-300 BCE -described species as fixed -Scale of nature: arranges species in order of lowest to highest complexity -linear hierarchy Hutton, a geologist : 1795 -proposed gradualism -change is a slow but continuous process Thomas Robert Malthus, an economist : 1798 -published "Essay on the Principle of Population'" -Human population growth is limited by resources; At some point we will reach carrying capacity, 2 | P a g e -can't grow exponential...

What are properties of life? - correct answer Organisms reproduce their own kind. Living things exhibit complex by ordered organization. Organisms take in energy and use it to perform all of life's activities. Organisms respond to environmental stimuli. Science is _________________. - correct answer the inquiry-based effort to describe and explain nature. What is Charles Darwin most known for? - correct answer Evolution Can science and religion coexist? Can they answer all of ...

Explain the main characteristics that describe all living things - ️️complexity, ability to change in response to the environment, the ability to metabolize and reproduce, and the capacity to evolve Explain why viruses are not considered living organisms. - ️️viruses cannot reproduce on their own Explain all of the 'steps' of the scientific method including all pertinent vocabulary. - ️️observation, hypothesis, test/experimentation, conclusion Explain in detail what a scie...

LSU BIOLOGY 1001 FINAL (ROSBY) TEST BANK QUESTIONS WITH ALL CORRECT SOLUTIONS GRADED A+ How do scientists use normally harmful viruses to treat diseases such as cystic fibrosis without causing a viral disease? - Answer-They genetically engineer the virus to make it harmless, then insert the gene for the treatment of cystic fibrosis into the virus Evolution - Answer-Change over time in the characteristics of a population Population - Answer-Consists of all the individuals of one species...

Frenchman responsible for the belief that organisms could inherit acquired characteristics - Jean Baptiste de Lamark Time Spirit - Zeitgeist Effect caused when a natural disaster results in a few individuals remaining in a population with different allele frequencies by chance - Bottleneck effect Author of "Principles of Geology"; a book that would have an important influence on Darwin - Sir Charles Lyell He failed to become a doctor and a minister, but went on to revolutionize the st...