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According to Archbishop James Ussher how old is the earth? Less than 6,000 years old.
The idea of inheritance of acquired characteristics purports that traits acquired during an organism's lifetime can be passed on to its offspring.
Who is responsible for the idea of the inheritance of acquired characteristics? Jean Baptiste de Lamarck
Which of the following is a feature of the inheritance of acquired characteristics? There is no extinction of species.Evolution is always working toward producing more complex forms.Species can develop new organs.
A pseudoscience is anything with scientifically testable ideas that are taken on faith, even if they are tested and proven false.
Why did Darwin put off publishing his theories on the transmutations of species? Darwin feared that science and society were not ready for his explanation.
If an organism reproduces asexually it reproduces without sex.
Gregor Mendel is famous for describing the basic laws of inheritance.
What determines how genetically similar any two species are to each other? what climate the species are adapted to.what characteristics are shared between the species.how far back in time did the species have a common ancestor
The science that studies the network of relationships within environmental systems is called ecology.
When an organism has physical traits and behaviors that allow it to survive in a particular environment we call it adapted.
Which of the following can be a factor in the rise of a new species? populations splitting.populations moving.changing environment
A niche is the environment of an organism and its adaptive response to that environment.
Selection for reproductive success in plants and animals that is directed by humans is called artificial selection.
A gene pool consists of all the alleles in a population.
An environmental factor that causes genetic mutations is called a fission.
Genetic drift is genetic change based on random changes within a species' gene pool.
Variants of a gene that code for different expressions of a trait are alleles.
What can occur when a portion of a species is isolated from the rest of the species? The evolution of a new species.
What is the raw material of evolution? mutations
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