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Exam II Names Flashcards

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Anaximander

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Life came from fish

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Aristotle, Plate, Socrates

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Epigenesis

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Buffon

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Objected/Went against Linnaeus, naming system was arbitrary.

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Carl Linneaus

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Systemae Naturae (Describes all living things)

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Charles Lyell

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Fossil record, strata, geology takes time, uniformitarian.

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Clausen, Keck, and Heisey

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Cinquefoil plant (local adaption)
Evidence of genetic variation (1940)
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Cuvier

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Catastrophism, Created four branches, (Vertebrae, Mullusca, Articulata, Radiata)

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Darwin

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History maker in Natural Evoltion

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DeVries

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New species come from large scale mutation event

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Dobzhansky

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Genetics

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Ernst Mayer

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Species defined

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Eldridge Gould

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Punctuated equilibrium

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Hutton

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Geological processes are rare and constant

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John Ray

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Is a naturalist. Earth is really old, things got more complex.
Uniformitarians, catastrophism.

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John Usher

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Timeline for Bible (Catastrophist)

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Kettlewell and Ford

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Melanistic Moths

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Lamarck

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Use and Disuse. Acquired characteristics are passed on.

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Mendel

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Pea plants, alleles, genes

a. Discrete units
b. mechanism for heredity

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Ronald Fisher

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Genetic Theory of Natural Selection. Modifier gene.

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Sewell-Wright, Haldane

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Inbreeding

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Simpson

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Paleontologist

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Stebbins

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Plants

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Thales

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Founder of greek philosophy

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Von Werner

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Stratigraphy and lithography

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Weismann

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Germ plasm and somatoplasm (mutation occurs in germ)

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William Smith

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World first strata determination

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