Evolution

Question 1

What is evolutionary theory?

Answer 1

•Hypothesis of evolutionary change

Question 2

What was Darwin’s first book called?

Answer 2

•On the origin of species

-Natural selection

Question 3

What was the name of the ship Darwin sailed on?

Answer 3

HMS Beagle

Question 4

Where did Darwin collect his samples from?

Answer 4

•South America

Question 5

Who was the first person to describe evolution?

Answer 5

•Jean Baptiste de Lamarck

Question 7

Who influenced Darwin with his book “principles of geology” and why?

Answer 7

Charles Lyell b/c he thought the world was older.

Question 8

According to the Malthusian Doctrine what conditions could stop overpopulation?

Answer 8

• Famine
• Disease
• War

Question 9

Steps of Darwin’s Natural Selection

Answer 9

1) Variation
2) Struggle for existence (competition)
3) High birth rates
4) Survival of the fittest
5) Long Time

Question 10

What is Industrial Melaism?

Answer 10

•Colour change for better(Peppered Moths)

Question 11

What were Jean Baptiste de Lamarack 3 assumptions for change?

Answer 11

1) Desire
2) Use and Disuse
3) Passing Acquired Traits

Question 12

What happens if two species live in an environment?

Answer 12

• Coexist
• Extinction
• Evolution

Question 13

Why does speciation happen?

Answer 13

•Isolation or separation

Question 14

What are the steps of speciation?

Answer 14

1) Breed
2) Natural Selection
3) Gene Pools unsimilar
4) New

Question 15

What is divergent evolution (adaptive radiation)?

Answer 15

•One species gives rise to another but can still breed

Question 16

What structures evidence of divergent evolution?

Answer 16

•Homologous Structures

Question 17

What is convergent evolution?

Answer 17

•Products of adaptive radiation that can not breed

Question 18

What are parallel species?

Answer 18

•Occupy the same habitat but not niche

Question 19

What is genetic drift?

Answer 19

•A random change in a gene’s frequency. (Natural disaster)

Question 20

What is Gene Flow?

Answer 20

•Genes from one population to another

Question 21

Gradualism (ex)

Answer 21

• gradually slow

* fossils

Question 22

Punctuated Equilibrium

Answer 22

•Long stable with brief change

Question 23

What is a cause of mass extinction?

Answer 23

•Change in global climate

Question 24

The importance of THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION

Answer 24

• Building block of biology

* Understand ourselves and others

Question 25

What is evolutionary fitness?

Answer 25

•Gene passing to next generation successfully

Question 26

What is fitness?

Answer 26

•Traits/behaviors aid in survival and reproduction

Question 27

What is the process that results in fitness?

Answer 27

•Adaptation

Question 28

What is a Paleontologist?

Answer 28

• Fossil studier

* Fossil record makers

Question 29

Is the fossil record incomplete?

Answer 29

•Yes

Question 30

What are vestigial organs?

Answer 30

•Organs of ancestors that are no longer used

Question 31

What is the name for species having similar protein/nucleic acid?

Answer 31

•Homology

Question 32

The great restrictive law

Answer 32

•Population control

Question 33

HBD Kettlewell

Answer 33

•Peppered moths

Question 34

What is a phenotype?

Answer 34

•Characteristics/behaviors caused by interaction of genotype & environment

Question 35

What is a genotype?

Answer 35

•Constitutional traits of organisms

Question 36

Who influenced Darwin?

Answer 36

•Thomas Malthus

Question 37

Equilibrium

Answer 37

•Doesn’t change much

Question 38

Niche

Answer 38

•Role of an organism in it’s environment