Question | Answer |
Naturalist aboard the HMS Beagle in 1831... | Charles Darwin |
Georges Cuvier founded the study of fossils, or the science of ... | Paleontology |
Proposed the idea of inheritance of acquired characteristics... | Lamarck |
Theory that explained the changes viewed in fossils as small changes caused by natural processes that occur at a uniform rate... | Uniformitarianism |
Any characteristic that makes and organism more suited to its environment.... | Adaptation |
Study of the distribution of life-forms on earth... | Biogeography |
Wrote the book "Principles of Geology" which Darwin borrowed from in order to form his ideas about natural selection... | Charles Lyell |
Show evidence that change, or evolution, has occurred over time as they provide "links" between groups... | Transitional species |
All organisms have the same basic ___, including DNA, ATP and many identical or nearly identical enzymes... | Biological molecules |
Anatomical features that are fully developed in one group of organisms but reduced/nonfunctional in another, similar group... | Vestigial structures |
Fossils trapped in rock strata are the ___ that we use to learn about the history of life... | Fossil record |
This theory states that all living things have a common ancestor, but each is adapted to a particular way of life/environment... | Evolution |
The human knee bone and spine were derived from ancestral structures that supported four-legged animals, is a statement which provides ___ evidence of evolution | Anatomical |
The amino acid sequence of human hemoglobin is more similar to that of rhesus monkeys than to that of mice, is a statement which provides ___ evidence of evolution. | Biochemical |
Marsupials are only plentiful in Australia, is a statement which provides ___ evidence of evolution | Biogeographical |
The flipper of a dolphin and the fin of a tuna are an example of what type of structure? | Homologous |
When the degree of similarity in DNA base sequences of genes is examined and found to be high, it leads scientists to assume... | Common descent |
The wings of a dragon fly and those of a peregrine falcon are an example of what type of structure? | Analogous |
The ___ show that reptiles and mammals share an amniote ancestry... | Synapsids |
Transition between mesonychids and today's mammals; probably walked on land and swam by flexing its backbone and paddling with it's hind limbs... | Ambulocetus |
The origin of new structures, found by comparing fossil evidence of organisms to similar living organisms, can be most likely explained by ___ of the preexisting structures... | Modification |
Efficient seed dispersal would be favored in (natural/artificial) selection... | Natural |
Natural selection is the only process that results in ___ | Adaptation to the environment |
___ are not able to explain multiple extinctions, replacement of one group of organisms bu another, or the successive changes that link groups or organisms in the fossil record... | Catastrophists |
A hypothesis, in science, is supported by a great deal of ___ | Evidence |
How long did the voyage of the Beagle last? | Five years |
Due to ___, its often possible to see the number of strata, layers of rock or sedimentary material that contain(s) fossils... | Erosion |
Today, there are ___ species of finches on the Galapagos with beaks adapted to a particular way of life, as described my Darwin... | thirteen |
Breeding organisms for desired characteristics... | Artificial selection |
Formation of new species... | Speciation |
In all environments, for all species, there is a struggle to __ and reproduce each generation... | Survive |
Make adaptations to the environment possible and are passed on to future generations... | Variations |
Process resulting in the evolution of organisms... | Natural selection |
Reproductive success of an individual relative to other members of the population... | Fitness |
Scientist who also studied the geographical distribution of life (in indonesia) and eventually conceived the idea of "survival of the fittest." | Wallace |
Stressed the reproductive potential of human beings; stated death and famine are inevitable... | Malthus |
After studying fossil evidence, Darwin concluded that the Glyptodont is related to present-day... | Armadillos |
Older rock layers are situated at the bottom of a selection of rock strata and the newer layers are on the top... | Law of superposition |
The characteristics of the Patagonian hair resemble those of the ___, which does not occur naturally in SA... | European rabbit |
One of the earliest attempts to explain the biogeographical distribution of species... | Wallace line |
___ muscles that surround each hair follicle can be viewed as vestigial structures; in other animals they are a useful defense mechanism but not so much in humans... | Piloerector |
___ is a molecule used in the electron transport chain of all many organisms and is of particular interest in molecular evidence of evolution; the sequence in a human differes from that in a monkey bu only 1 amino acid... | Cytochrome c |