What Is Evolution?

Question 1

What is microevolution?

Answer 1

Evolution within species and differences between species

Question 2

What is macroevolution?

Answer 2

How life came to be

Question 3

Who came up with organic evolution?

Answer 3

Jean Baptist’s Lamarck

Question 4

What is organic evolution?

Answer 4

Spontaneous evolution where primitive organisms became complex

Question 5

What is an example of descent by modification

Answer 5

Wolf to dog

Question 6

Descent with modification is…?

Answer 6

Passing traits onto parent to child and is one of the fundamental ideas behind Darwin’s theory of evolution. So there are gradual traits in population.

Question 7

What three things is population abundance limited by?

Answer 7

Predation
Food
Climate

Question 8

What are the three ifs and a then?

Answer 8

If…

1. Individuals vary in character
2. It can be inherited
3. Offspring number varies

Then…
Ones who have more offspring will have an advantage

Question 9

What is gradual accumulation of change? Who used this theory?

Answer 9

Takes millions of years

Darwin applied it to natural selection in his tree of life.

Question 10

Why is the Galapagos so well studied?

Answer 10

It’s 50% endemic (stay in one area and restricted to that area)
It has variation between areas

Question 11

Give an example of microevolution

Answer 11

Peppered moths