Natural Selection

Question 1

What does evolution by natural selection explain?

Answer 1

explains how populations have come to be adapted to enviornments

Question 2

What did evolution by natural selection reveal?

Answer 2

populations of organisms evolve

Question 3

Two components of scientific theory?

Answer 3

pattern component and process component

Question 4

what did lamarack propose?

Answer 4

species are not static but chnage through time. evolution occurs by the in inheritance of acquired characetristics

Question 5

What is typological thinking?

Answer 5

organisms of a species conform to a specific norm; variation is abnormal

Question 6

Darwin and Wallace proposal?

Answer 6

evolution occurs by natural selection.

Question 7

Evidence that species change through time?

Answer 7

Earth’s age, extinction, fossil records, vestigial traits

Question 8

Aristotles thinking?

Answer 8

Typological and scale of nature

Question 8

Platos thinking?

Answer 8

Typological

Question 9

Lamaracks thinking?

Answer 9

change through time and scale of nature; proposed mechanism of change in time; some organisms are lesser

Question 10

Darwin and Wallace thinking?

Answer 10

change through time and common ancestry

Question 11

What are the three levels of homology?

Answer 11

Genetic homology, developmental homology, structural homology.