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Zoology

Lesson 2

TermDefinition
Evolution It is despensable, a process by which organism descended from ancient organism.
John Baptist Lamarck A French botanist known the Use and Disuse Theory.
Charles Darwin He is known for his theory, natural selection.
James Hutton His theory is about the effects of geological changes in relation to species evolution.
Catastrophism A theory of geological change that suggested that features seen on the earth surface are accounted by violent, large-scale events that occurred relatively short amount of time.
Uniformitarianism It is a theory of geological change that suggests that the Earth was formed by slow, uniform ongoing geologic process, not by sudden catastrophic event.
Charles Lyell He rejected the theory of catastrophism and published his book Principles of Geology
Thomas Malthus His theory, Malthusian Principle is about the idea that population growth is potentially exponential while the growth of the food supply and resources are linear.
Fossils These are the remains of living organism existed million years ago.
James Hutton Scottish geologist whom formulated the theory of geological change
Homology It is an example of similarity of bone structure in the forelimbs of many vertebrates
Coccyx Humans vestige of a tail
Appendix, Coccyx Example of a vestigial structure in human
Homologous Structure One example of this are the forelimbs of mammals.
Evolution Change through time
Vestigial Structure It is a structure that is no longer functional.
Homologous Structure It has similar structures but not in function
Fossils Relics, or impression of ancient organism.
Analogous Structure It is anatomically dissimilar but same in function.
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