After First Quiz

Question 1

Cladograms can be verified by DNA sequence?

Answer 1

True.

Question 2

Autoapormorphic

Answer 2

1 group advanced

Question 3

Synapomorphic

Answer 3

2 groups advanced

Question 4

Lynn margulis

Answer 4

Serial endosymbiotic theory

Question 5

Plato

Answer 5

Idealism=essentialism.
427-347 bc
2 worlds, one illusory world of imperfection (explains variation) and one real eternal world

Question 6

Aristotle

Answer 6

Scala naturae: ranks life from best(humans) to worst(worm) + spontaneous generation:life forms from matter, worms from wet soil, maggots from raw meat(no evolution required)
384-322 bc

Question 7

Old testament

Answer 7

Creationism:god created the world in 6 days, according to bishop usher, who counted the postadamite generations in the book of genesis, the date if gods creation is October 4004 bc

Question 8

Carolus Linnaeus

Answer 8

Natural theology
1707-1778
Ad majorem dei Gloriam-classified organisms for the greater glory of god

Question 9

George Leopold Cuvier

Answer 9

Catastrophism
1769-1832
Several great floods killed off life + several creations by god(in 6 days): fossil extinctions explained

Question 10

Jean baptistery Lamarck

Answer 10

Lamarckism
1744-1829
Evolution exists, mechanism is “sentiments interieurs” an inner drive: inheritability of acquired characters: giraffe, snake

Question 11

James Hutton

Answer 11

Actualism=unformism
1734-1796
The present is the key to the past. No vestige of a beginning and no prospect of an end

Question 12

Thomas Malthus

Answer 12

Existentialism
1766-1834
Suffering of human population due to over-reproduction, and limitation of earth resources

Question 13

Charles Darwin

Answer 13

Darwinism
1809-1882
The origin of species by means of natural selection. Natural selection acts upon variation among individuals competing for limited resources, “struggle for life” “survival of the fittest” reproductive success

Question 14

Gregor Mendel

Answer 14

Laws of inheritance+mutations
1822-1884
Laws of equal segregation and independent assortment, dominance, mutations, hybridization

Question 15

Niels Eldridge and Stephen jay Gould

Answer 15

Gradualism: species change slowly and gradually over millions of years.
And punctualism: species are stable over millions of years, then suddenly change in peripheral isolated populations
1972
Credited to Darwin and Hutton only gradualism

Question 16

Orthologous gene

Answer 16

Apomorphic

Question 17

Paralogous gene

Answer 17

Apomorphic