Week 5

Question 1

Evolution

Answer 1

The theory of a change in the frequency of a gene or a trait in population between generations

Question 2

Theory

Answer 2

Well substantiated explanation of some aspect of natural world based on observed facts

Question 3

Charles Darwin

Answer 3

was not first to come up with theory of evolution but is famous for it

Question 4

Inheritance v. Evolution

Answer 4

Inheritance works on the individual Level and Evolution works on the population level

Question 5

Uniformitarianism

Answer 5

The same gradual geological process that we observe today operated in the past

Question 6

Charles Lyell

Answer 6

A Scottish Geologist that convinced scholars and the public that the earth is very old and has undergone significant geological changes

Question 7

Robert Hooke

Answer 7

Paleontologist that Determined that fossil represent past life forms

Question 8

Baron George Cuvier

Answer 8

Paleontologist that determined each stratum had unique fossils

Question 9

Catastrophism

Answer 9

Theory that there have been multiple creations interspersed by great natural disasters

Question 10

Mary Anning

Answer 10

Most important Fossil Collector in Europe that first reconstructed extinct animals

Question 11

Taxonomy

Answer 11

The classification of organisms into a system that reflects degree of relatedness

Question 12

Lamarckianism

Answer 12

Incorrect Theory of Evolution through the inheritance of acquired traits in which an organism has developed over its lifetime

Question 13

Evolutionary Fitness

Answer 13

The survival of the form that will the most copies of itself in successive generations