Week 1 - Intro

Question 1

Who noted that populations grow exponentially but food production only increases linearly?

Answer 1

Thomas Malthus

Question 2

Whose book, which greatly influenced his thinking, did Charles Darwin take with him on the Beagle?

Answer 2

Charles Lyell

Question 3

Who co-authored a paper on Natural Selection with Charles Darwin, published in the Philosophical Transactions of the LinnaeanSociety in 1858?

Answer 3

Alfred Russel Wallace

Question 4

Approximately how long did Darwin spend gathering evidence for his book, On the Origin of Species, after returning from his Beagle voyage?

Answer 4

20 years

Question 5

What is required for evolution by natural selection to occur?

Answer 5

Genetic variation

Question 6

What was Darwin’s incorrect theory of heredity called?

Answer 6

Pangenesis

Question 7

A flood destroys 90% of a single tree species on an island. What is this known as?

Answer 7

Genetic bottleneck

Question 8

What’s neutral evolution?

Answer 8

A theory that evolutionary changes at the molecular level are due to random genetic drift, rather than natural selection.

Question 9

What thing does the rate of adaptation depend upon?

Answer 9

Biological fitness

Question 10

3 Evidences for evolution?

Answer 10

• Transitional stages in the fossil record
• Anatomy, some structures indicate sharing with a common ancestor
• DNA and the genetic code

Question 11

How does neutral variation lead to evolution?

Answer 11

• family size
• founder effects
• genetic bottlenecks