Exam II Names

Question 1

Anaximander

Answer 1

Life came from fish

Question 2

Aristotle, Plate, Socrates

Answer 2

Epigenesis

Question 3

Buffon

Answer 3

Objected/Went against Linnaeus, naming system was arbitrary.

Question 4

Carl Linneaus

Answer 4

Systemae Naturae (Describes all living things)

Question 5

Charles Lyell

Answer 5

Fossil record, strata, geology takes time, uniformitarian.

Question 6

Clausen, Keck, and Heisey

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Cuvier

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Darwin

Answer 8

History maker in Natural Evoltion

Question 9

DeVries

Answer 9

New species come from large scale mutation event

Question 10

Dobzhansky

Answer 10

Genetics

Question 11

Ernst Mayer

Answer 11

Species defined

Question 12

Eldridge Gould

Answer 12

Punctuated equilibrium

Question 13

Hutton

Answer 13

Geological processes are rare and constant

Question 14

John Ray

Answer 14

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

Question 15

John Usher

Answer 15

Timeline for Bible (Catastrophist)

Question 16

Kettlewell and Ford

Answer 16

Melanistic Moths

Question 17

Lamarck

Answer 17

Use and Disuse. Acquired characteristics are passed on.

Question 18

Mendel

Answer 18

Pea plants, alleles, genes

a. Discrete units
b. mechanism for heredity

Question 19

Ronald Fisher

Answer 19

Genetic Theory of Natural Selection. Modifier gene.

Question 20

Sewell-Wright, Haldane

Answer 20

Inbreeding

Question 21

Simpson

Answer 21

Paleontologist

Question 22

Stebbins

Answer 22

Plants

Question 23

Thales

Answer 23

Founder of greek philosophy

Question 24

Von Werner

Answer 24

Stratigraphy and lithography

Question 25

Weismann

Answer 25

Germ plasm and somatoplasm (mutation occurs in germ)

Question 26

William Smith

Answer 26

World first strata determination