Exam 1 Part 4

Question 1

Created taxonomy, rationality of species organization represented God’s design; recognized similarities between ape and humans

Answer 1

Carolus Linnaeus (1707-1798)

Question 2

A system of classifying life on earth in Latin

Answer 2

Taxonomy

Question 3

When was Systema Naturae created?

Answer 3

1735

Question 4

Book that had defining features of classification scheme were nested hierarchy of species and binomial nomenclature, different way way of classifying organisms than the great chain of being

Answer 4

Systema Naturae

Question 5

Every species on earth has 2 names, genus and species

Answer 5

Binomial nomenclature

Question 6

What is the nested hierarchy from inclusive to exclusive?

Answer 6

Kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species

Question 7

Ingest food

Answer 7

Animalia

Question 8

Have a Vertebral cord

Answer 8

Chordata

Question 9

Have fur, warm blooded, mammary glands

Answer 9

Mammalia

Question 10

Includes great apes

Answer 10

Hominidae

Question 11

Genus

Answer 11

Homo

Question 12

Species

Answer 12

Sapien

Question 13

Charle’s Darwin’s grandfather, wrote Zoonomia, believed that the progress of life was towards a higher organization

Answer 13

Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802)

Question 14

Book that proposed species are self improving through time (evolution)

Answer 14

Zoonomia (1794-1796)

Question 15

Person who believed the inheritance of acquired characteristics, species change through time, plants and animals are adapted to their environments because of evolution NOT design, major evolutionary thinker before Charles Darwin

Answer 15

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829)

Question 16

Characteristics you acquire through your lifespan are inherited through your offspring; traits in use change over generations and disuse of traits caused recession over generations

Answer 16

Inheritance of acquired characteristics

Question 17

Political economist who argued that population grew faster than resources allowed; a struggle for existence = competition for finite resources

Answer 17

Thomas Malthus

Question 18

When was “An Essay on The Principle of Population” created?

Answer 18

1798

Question 19

How did Thomas Malthus’ work influence Charles Darwin’s thoughts on the evolutionary theory?

Answer 19

Darwin thought more about the competition within a species

Question 20

Person who developed the theory of evolution and natural selection

Answer 20

Charles Darwin