Charles Darwin Flashcards

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Publishes on the ___ of species by means of natural selection or the ___ of favored races in the struggle for life

A

origin, preservation

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The voyage of the __

a. antipredator ____
b. ____
c. immune ___

A

Beagle

a. behavior
b. microbiomes
c. immune function

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Darwin’s influences:

a. ____
b. ___
c. ___ (argued human population __ is greater than the rate of increase in food __)

A

a. Lamarck
b. Lyell
c. Malthus (growth, supply)

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Alfred Wallace:

a. early believer in ___ of species
b. Darwin and Wallace together presented their __….

A

a. transmutation

b. findings

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On the Origin of Species (by Darwin)

a. Presented two main ideas: ___ with ___ and Natural Selection
b. Evolution has ___ claims

A

a. Descent with Modification

b. five

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Darwin’s five components of Evolution:

  1. ___ of organisms are changing overtime (EX. Darwin’s finches)
  2. Common Descent (Lamarck)
    a. Life becomes more ___ overtime
    b. Leaves out ___
    c. have only been linked to their ___ oldest organism (opposed Darwin’s as he says organisms are linked to ___ ancestor and does have __ lineages)
    d. LUCA: in which everything we see has ___ from
  3. ___ (slow, gradual process) vs. large leaps without ___ forms
  4. Populational variation (wide range of ___, colors etc)
  5. Natural Selection: changes in __ of different types of ___ in a population, this change is caused by their differences in their abilities to ___ and reproduce
A
1. population 
2.
a. complex
b. extinction 
c. OWN, Common, distinct 
d. descended 
3. Gradualism, intermediate
4. shapes  
5. proportion, individuals, survive
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