Thoughts and history of evolution
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| show | Aristotle believed species were fixed creations arranged by their complexity
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| How long did these ideas last? | show 🗑
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| What was Linnaues first do do? | show 🗑
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| What language is used for scientific naming? | show 🗑
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| What are the two words called in a scientific name? | show 🗑
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| show | binomial nomendature
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| Charles Lyell | show 🗑
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| show | species extinction (catastrophism)
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| Thomas Malthus | show 🗑
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| James Hutton | show 🗑
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| show | Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics and Law of Use and Disuse
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| Wallace | show 🗑
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| Which was published first - the Origin of Species by Darwin or Gregor Mendel's papers on inheritance? | show 🗑
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| show | catastrophism
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| show | Studied fossil in sedimentary rock
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| show | Found that catastrophes
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| show | hutton, geologist, inveterate
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| Hutton;s ideas were known as_________ | show 🗑
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| show | Geological forces that have changed life on Earth over millions of years
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| show | Uniformitarianism
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| show | Geological processes at uniform rates building and wearing down the Earth's crust
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| How old did Lyell propse that Earth was? | show 🗑
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| show | Principles of Geology explains geological process that shaped the Earth
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| Lamarck was one of the first scientists to understand that change occurs over__________ | show 🗑
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| Lamarck believed that changes were adaptations to the _________ that organisms _____ in their lifetime and that he thought could be passed on to ___________ | show 🗑
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| Explain Lamarck's idea of the Law of Use and Disuse. | show 🗑
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| show | inheritance of acquired characteristics
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| According to this theory new _____ could arise over time. | show 🗑
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| show | buff sons
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| show | Long necked giraffe
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| What did Lamarck NOT know that made his theory incorrect? | show 🗑
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| show | 1831, 22
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| How long was the Beagle voyage around the world? | show 🗑
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| As Darwin sailed around the coast of ______ ______, he collected plants and animals on the mainland and on the islands | show 🗑
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| show | Small group of islands 600 miles west of South America, made from volcanic eruptions
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| show | very different climates and resembles animals from South America
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| show | Finches on the islands resembled mainland finches, but a lot more type of finches on the island because of the different types of food on the island
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| show | different lengths depending on their type of food gathering
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| The island finches resembled a finch on the ____ | show 🗑
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| Was the available food and habitat the same on all the islands? | show 🗑
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| show | more types for different types of food
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| List three observations Darwin made on his travels that led him to proposes his revolutionary idea about the way life changes over time | show 🗑
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| show | Australia had kangaroos, but no rabbits
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| show | living, trilobites
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| show | Trilobites, giant sloth
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| show | Evolution is the slow, gradual change in a population of organisms overtime
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| show | Species will increase exponentially, generation after generation
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| In nature, what tends to happen to size of populations over time? | show 🗑
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| show | environmental resources
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| Only a _______ of the offspring produced survive to the next generation | show 🗑
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| The struggle for environmental resources is commonly called ____ of the fittest. | show 🗑
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| show | inheritable
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| Which organisms in a population are most likely to live offspring to pass on their traits? | show 🗑
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| show | natural selection... Darwin
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| show | The unequal ability of individuals to survive and reproduce leads to a gradual change in a population with favorable characteristics accumulating over generations.
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| show | Species
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| show | Thomas Malthus
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| Malthus observed wheat about the birth rate of babies | show 🗑
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| Malthus knew that population size was limited by what? | show 🗑
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| show | Force life and death competition
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| show | Food, living space, mates
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| Who'd Mslthus say would happen if the population size continued to grow unchecked? | show 🗑
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| The _____ rate should increase to balance the ______ of a population and the limited _______ in the environment | show 🗑
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| Most organisms produce _____ offspring that can survive causing many to _____ | show 🗑
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| Darwin proposed that organisms descended from what ? | show 🗑
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| Over time, according to Darwin, organisms _____ their form causing evolution of new ______ | show 🗑
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| show | Natural selection
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| During the struggle for survivial, which organisms survive to pass on their traits | show 🗑
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| How long after he returned to England did Darwin publish his book about evolution? | show 🗑
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| show | Extremely controversial topic, and it challenged established religion and scientific beliefs
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