B15(15.1-15.10) Genetics and evolution

Question 1

What is evolution?

Answer 1

-change in the inherited characteristics of a population
over time through natural selection, which may result in
a new species

Question 2

Who first proposed the theory of evolution by
natural selection?

Answer 2

Charles Darwin

Question 3

What is the theory of evolution by natural selection?

Answer 3

-all species of living things evolved from a common
ancestor that developed billions of years ago

Question 4

Describe Lamarck’s idea of inheritance.

Answer 4

-organisms change over their lifetimes and these
characteristics can be inherited