Ch. 14 Advanced Biology Review
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| Naturalist aboard the HMS Beagle in 1831... | Charles Darwin
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| Georges Cuvier founded the study of fossils, or the science of ... | Paleontology
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| Proposed the idea of inheritance of acquired characteristics... | Lamarck
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| Theory that explained the changes viewed in fossils as small changes caused by natural processes that occur at a uniform rate... | Uniformitarianism
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| Any characteristic that makes and organism more suited to its environment.... | Adaptation
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| Study of the distribution of life-forms on earth... | Biogeography
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| Wrote the book "Principles of Geology" which Darwin borrowed from in order to form his ideas about natural selection... | Charles Lyell
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| Show evidence that change, or evolution, has occurred over time as they provide "links" between groups... | Transitional species
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| All organisms have the same basic ___, including DNA, ATP and many identical or nearly identical enzymes... | Biological molecules
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| Anatomical features that are fully developed in one group of organisms but reduced/nonfunctional in another, similar group... | Vestigial structures
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| Fossils trapped in rock strata are the ___ that we use to learn about the history of life... | Fossil record
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| This theory states that all living things have a common ancestor, but each is adapted to a particular way of life/environment... | Evolution
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| 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
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| 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
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| Marsupials are only plentiful in Australia, is a statement which provides ___ evidence of evolution | Biogeographical
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| The flipper of a dolphin and the fin of a tuna are an example of what type of structure? | Homologous
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| 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
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| The wings of a dragon fly and those of a peregrine falcon are an example of what type of structure? | Analogous
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| The ___ show that reptiles and mammals share an amniote ancestry... | Synapsids
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| 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
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| 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
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| Efficient seed dispersal would be favored in (natural/artificial) selection... | Natural
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| Natural selection is the only process that results in ___ | Adaptation to the environment
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| ___ 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
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| A hypothesis, in science, is supported by a great deal of ___ | Evidence
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| How long did the voyage of the Beagle last? | Five years
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| Due to ___, its often possible to see the number of strata, layers of rock or sedimentary material that contain(s) fossils... | Erosion
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| Today, there are ___ species of finches on the Galapagos with beaks adapted to a particular way of life, as described my Darwin... | thirteen
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| Breeding organisms for desired characteristics... | Artificial selection
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| Formation of new species... | Speciation
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| In all environments, for all species, there is a struggle to __ and reproduce each generation... | Survive
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| Make adaptations to the environment possible and are passed on to future generations... | Variations
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| Process resulting in the evolution of organisms... | Natural selection
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| Reproductive success of an individual relative to other members of the population... | Fitness
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| Scientist who also studied the geographical distribution of life (in indonesia) and eventually conceived the idea of "survival of the fittest." | Wallace
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| Stressed the reproductive potential of human beings; stated death and famine are inevitable... | Malthus
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| After studying fossil evidence, Darwin concluded that the Glyptodont is related to present-day... | Armadillos
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| 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
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| The characteristics of the Patagonian hair resemble those of the ___, which does not occur naturally in SA... | European rabbit
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| One of the earliest attempts to explain the biogeographical distribution of species... | Wallace line
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| ___ 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
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| ___ 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
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