Chapter 10

Question 0

Changes that occur in the characteristics of a population through the process of genetic variation

Answer 0

Micro evolution

Question 1

A change, which is inherited in genes, in characteristics of a population over time.

Answer 1

Biological Evolution

Question 2

All species on Earth today are defendants of a single common ancestor and all species represent the product of millions of years of accumulated microevolutionary changes.

Answer 2

The Theory of Evolution/ Macroevolution

Question 3

The major conceptual scientific study in late 1600s that said species is recently survived and they are not substantially changing

Answer 3

Natural Theology

Question 4

William paltry was a english philosopher who supported what?

Answer 4

Natural Theology

Question 5

Charles Lyell, geologist, believed in gradual changes produced by the same process operating today.

Answer 5

Uniformitarianism

Question 6

This person was the person proposed the mechanism of change and inheritance of acquired characteristics.

Answer 6

Jean Baptiste Lamarck

Question 7

This scientist falsified inheritance of acquired characteristics by removing tails of mice didn’t result in offspring without tails

Answer 7

August Weismann

Question 8

Name the categories of classification in taxonomy

Answer 8

Domain 
Kingdom
Phylum
Class
Oranges
Family 
Genus 
Species