Biology- Evolution: A Retreat from Science 14.3 -FINISHED
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| The study of similarities and differences in the body structure or organisms. | comparative anatomy
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| Who founded comparative anatomy? | George Cuvier
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| What refers to similarities among organisms adapted to the same environment but different in internal structure. | Analogy
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| What refers to the similar organs which are also similar in internal structure. | homology
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| The science which seeks to discover how the mechanisms of living cells work. | Molecular biology
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| Who is the 18th century who said that if you found a watch you knew it had a watchmaker, though why when we find a rock we say it has no maker? | William Paley
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| At the same time as ORIGINS was written there was a man who was uncovering the true nature of genetics and heredity. | Gregor Mandel
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| Variety in kinds generally result in......??? | preexisting genetic variety
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| Are there fixed limits to biological change? | Yes.
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| Random errors in an organism's genetic code is called? | mutations
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| De Vries was convinced that _________ and natural selection working together provided the mechanism which brought about evolution. | mutations
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| What revealed these latent characteristics, and natural selection cause them to become predominant among the finches on the island? | Inbreeding (breading w/in small groups)
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| A commonly cited example of natural selection in action is that of the ______ _____ (Biston betularia), found in England. | peppered moth
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| The hypothesis of embryonic recapitulation was developed by a German evolutionist named ________ _________. | Ernst haeckel
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