Evolutionary Biology Lec 3

Question 1

Belief that supernatural beings created the earth and started life

Answer 1

Creationism

Question 2

Anomalous generation is also known as

Answer 2

Abiogenesis/Spontaneous generation

Question 3

It said that life came from non-life

Answer 3

Spontaneous generation

Question 4

He said that the combination of water(moisture) and sun produces life

Answer 4

Anaximander

Question 5

He said that primordial terrestrial slime and sun produces life

Answer 5

Anaximenes

Question 6

He believed that life came from water

Answer 6

Thales

Question 7

He said that organisms arise from different animal parts

Answer 7

Empedocles

Question 8

He said that plant came from air and animals came from aether (superior)

Answer 8

Anaxigoras

Question 9

He is the greatest (ancient) plant scientist. He also said that sand give rise to scallops and clams, slime to oyster, rock hollows to barnacle and limpet, snow to earthworms, fire to grub, and earthworm to eel.

Answer 9

Aristotle

Question 10

Vitruvius and Athenaeus are present in what era

Answer 10

Roman

Question 11

He said that book and southern wind produces bookworms

Answer 11

Vitruvius

Question 12

He said that anchovy came from sea foam

Answer 12

Athenaeus

Question 13

When was the abolishment of spontaneous generation?

Answer 13

Renaissance

Question 14

What transpired during the Renaissance

Answer 14

Biogenesis

Question 15

It said that life came from pre-existing lif

Answer 15

Biogenesis

Question 16

He made a set up of 3 jars (open, sealed with gauze, and sealed with cork) to determine the validity of spontaneous generation based on the formation of maggots

Answer 16

Francesco Redi

Question 16

After 100 years, he conducted an experiment guided by the one performed by Redi. He used chicken broth and sealed it. It produced clear gravy however, it has flaw as no oxygen is able to flow inside the jar.

Answer 16

Lazzaro Spallanzani

Question 17

After 91 years, he performed the same experiment using the swan neck flask. He heated the broth and the s-part of flask was the only part where the microbes appear. He believed that air causes life.

Answer 17

Louis Pasteur

Question 18

He is the Father of Modern Microbiology

Answer 18

Louis Pasteur

Question 19

He is an embryologists and said that all vertebrates come from one common ancestor

Answer 19

Pierre Louis Maupertuis

Question 20

He said that primitive species came from primitive forms

Answer 20

Carl Von Linne

Question 21

He said that vestigial structures are proof of change

Answer 21

George Buffon

Question 22

He said that all organisms came from similar protocell

Answer 22

Erasmus Darwin

Question 23

He proposed the theory of use and disuse and the theory of inheritance of acquired characteristics

Answer 23

John Baptiste Lamarck

Question 24

Species are not constant

Answer 24

Theory of use and disuse and theory of inheritance of acquired characteristics

Question 25

Existing species derived from pre-existing species

Answer 25

Theory of use and disuse and theory of inheritance of acquired characteristics

Question 26

Organisms change as needs arise

Answer 26

Theory of use and disuse and theory of inheritance of acquired characteristics

Question 26

Modification in one generation can be passed on the next generation

Answer 26

Theory of use and disuse and theory of inheritance of acquired characteristics

Question 27

The power of population is indefinitely greater than the Earth's power to produce sustenance to man

Answer 27

Thomas Robert Malthus

Question 28

Modern Abiogenesis

Answer 28

Chemosynthesis

Question 29

Made the modern version of abiogenesis by replicating the reducing environment in the laboratory

Answer 29

Alexander Ivanovich Oparin and John Burdon Sanderson Haldane

Question 30

What is the composition of the reducing atmosphere?

Answer 30

H, CH4, NH3, H2O, H2, Sulfide

Question 31

They conducted an experiment similar to Oparin and Haldane but with addition of atmospheric flask

Answer 31

Stanley Miller and Harold Urey

Question 32

What is the flaw of Miller and Urey Experiment?

Answer 32

The amount of CH4 and NH3 are low during the early atmosphere

Question 33

Who recounted and validated the Miller and Urey Experiment?

Answer 33

Jeffrey Bada

Question 34

What is the most common in the reducing atmosphere?

Answer 34

Presence of H

Question 35

What does the presence of H does?

Answer 35

Reduces and prevent oxidation No oxygen due to high reactivity of the molecules, preventing biomolecules to be formed

Question 36

It is where inorganic molecules are dissolved and also known as the primordial soup

Answer 36

Superthesis

Question 37

Svante Arrhenius is the proponent of

Answer 37

Cosmozoic/ Panspermia

Question 38

According to this theory, life has reached this planet Earth from other heavenly bodies such as meteorites, in the form of highly resistant spores of some organisms.

Answer 38

Cosmozoic/ Panspermia

Question 39

We are a starboard originated from elements of exploding stars

Answer 39

Svante Arrhenius

Question 40

He proposed the theory of eternity of life

Answer 40

Preyer

Question 41

Different types of beings have always existed on earth and shall continue to exist forever, only changing in form

Answer 41

Preyer (1880)

Question 42

Theory of Catastrophism

Answer 42

George Cuvier