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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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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