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STSC Exam 1 Question and answers 100% correct 2024 great chain of being - correct answer a hierarchical structure that distinguishes all things linearly based on medieval Christian beliefs that God intended for such order to exist in his world. God is at the top, angels, planets, kings, nobles, commoners, animals, plants, stones, metals, elements. Before adopted by medieval Christians, probably derived from philosophers like Aristotle and Plato. The natural order was present in society in ter...

Biology Praxis 5235 Latest Update with Verified Solutions Scientific Method 1) Observation 2) Research 3) Hypothesis 4) Test the hypothesis 5) Analysis of Data 6) Conclusion 7) Communication Anton van Leeuwenhoek Created the microscope and observed microorganisms Carolus Linnaeus Created the binomial nomenclature system for classifying species Georges Cuvier Established extinction as a fact Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Proposed teleological evolution Matthias Schleiden Stated that plants are made ...

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 ...

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 an...

TAMU Biology 112 Final Exam Questions with 100% Correct Answers Aristotle - Answer- Scala naturae Linnaeus - Answer- Binomial nomenclature Darwin - Answer- Fossils, strata Cuvier - Answer- Strata, extinction, Opposed evolution, catastrophic events caused extinction Hutton and Lyell - Answer- Gradualism, continuous geological growth, earth is OLD Lamarck - Answer- Use it or lose it, we get bigger and better, Adaptations - Answer- Inherited characteristics that enhance survival and reprod...

What did Aristotle believe? correct answer: Species were fixed creations arranged by their complexity Who contributed to Darwin's thinking? correct answer: •Charles Lyell •Thomas Malthus •George Cuvier •James Hutton •John Baptiste Lamarck •Alfred Russell Wallace Charles Lyell correct answer: Uniformitarism (geologic processed still change earth) Principles of Geology correct answer: •published by Lyell just before Beagle set sail and read by Darwin •explained...

convergent evolution - unrelated or distantly related organisms evolve similar body forms, coloration, organs, and adaptations natural selection - the process whereby organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring (acts on individuals but populations evolve) Judeo- Christian perspective - The Creator: God made everything Linnaeus - Binomial nomenclature and nested classification system Cuvier - fossils in strata- catastrophism Hutton and Lyell - g...

BIO 117 Exam 1 Questions and Answers Already Passed What is an adaptation? a trait that improves the fitness of its bearer, compared with individuals without the trait How can biological fitness be estimated? Count the number of healthy, fertile offspring produced by different individuals in a population. All of the following are true for natural selection EXCEPT: - Variation exists in populations (all individuals are NOT the same). -Characteristics acquired by individuals over the cours...

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...

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...