Lesson 6

Question 1

“Evolution brings a remarkable change in the structure of a living organism which helps them to adjust in a better manner in the environment and coordinate with the fluctuating conditions with time”

Answer 1

Charles Darwin

Question 2

• Established the modern concept of a species.
• First used the term species
• Studied fossils

Answer 2

John Ray

Question 3

Developed the modem taxonomic system

Answer 3

Carl Linnaeus

Question 4

• Natural history book
• Age of the Earth
• Role of vestigial organs

Answer 4

Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

Question 5

• Offspring inherited features from their parents.
• Descended from a common ancestor.

Answer 5

Erasmus Darwin

Question 6

• Books on comparative anatomy.
• Science of paleontology.

Answer 6

Georges Cuvier

Question 7

• Proposed that individuals were able to pass on their traits to their offspring.
• Believed that living things evolved in a continuously upward direction.
• Organisms altered their behavior in response to environmental change

Answer 7

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

Question 8

Proponent of uniformitarianism

Answer 8

James Hulton

Question 9

Principles of Geology

Answer 9

Charles Lyell

Question 10

Theory of evolution by natural selection.

Answer 10

Charles Robert Darwin

Question 11

Study on the origin of organisms

Answer 11

Alfred Russell Wallace

Question 12

The passing of genetic traits from parent to offspring

Answer 12

Heredity

Question 13

2 Scientists and their Theory of Evolution

Answer 13

1. Charles Darwin and his Theory of Evolution
2. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and his Theory of evolution