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exam 1

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the modern idea of extinction as common, in earths history was proposed in 19th century writings of   cuvier he also discovered study of fossils  
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Darwin's explanation of how adaptations arise centered on   NATURAL Selection  
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What insight did Darwin gain from reading Thomas Malthus's essay on human suffering?   thomas malthus wrote about human suffering in that organisms have the capacity to OVERREPRODUCE  
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Animals that possess homologous structures probably   evolved from the same ancestor  
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who came up with the scala naturae?   Aristotle  
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How did Hutton and Lyell’s ideas influence Charles Darwin’s thinking?   Darwin reasoned that the Earth must be very old and that slow, subtle processes could produce substantial biological changes.  
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who proposed the idea that organisms could pass aquired modifications to their offsrping children   jean LAMARCK  
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who proposed that earths geology is explained by gradual mechanisms   Hutton  
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what did Lyell add to Hutton's theory   Lyell said that same stuff happing in past is happening today and at the same rate, so basically earth is gradually getting older everyday  
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Darwin’s explanation of how adaptations arise centered on __________.   natural selection  
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Carolus Linnaeus is considered to be the founder of __________, and he __________   the binomial classification system; thought that resemblances among different species reflected the pattern of their creation. -he was the one to name stuff  
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Organisms found only in specific places in the world are referred to as __________.   endemic  
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analogous   goes with convergent evolution  
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homologous   goes with similar characteristics in different organisms bc all comes from 1 common ancestor  
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On an evolutionary tree, __________.   homologous characteristics form a nested pattern  
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All known organisms transcribe genetic information to protein molecules via the same genetic code. This finding strongly supports the hypothesis that _________   all organisms are descended from a single common ancestor  
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