Test Questions Flashcards
Catastrophism, meaning the regular occurrence of geological or meteorological disturbances (catastrophes), was Cuvier’s attempt to explain the existence of…
The fossil record.
Charles Darwin was the first to propose…
A mechanism for evolution that was supported by evidence.
The role that humans play in artificial selection is to…
Choose which organisms breed, and which do not.
What idea did Darwin learn from the writings of Thomas Malthus?
The environment is responsible for natural selection.
If the Bacterium STAPHYLOCOCCUS AURES experiences a cost for maintaining one or more antibiotic-resistance genes, then what should happen in environments from which antibiotics ever appear?
These bacteria should be outcompeted and replaced by bacteria that have lost these genes.
