BIOB51 MIDTERM EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS VERIFIED
Synapomorphies
shared derived characters
Convergent evolution
Independently evolved
Carolus Linnaeus
Father of modern taxonomy
Nicolas Steno
father of geology and stratigraphy
Natural theology
complexity was evidence of design
Georges Cuvier
- Anti-evolutionist
- Concluded that living things had gone extinct
Georges-Louis Buffon
- Species arise as distinct entities
- Diverse environments give rise to new varieties
James Hutton
Earth transformed gradually over vast amounts of time
William Smith
, - Used distinct groups of fossils
- First geological map
Jean Baptiste Lamarck
- Species evolved through natural processes
- Life is constantly generated
- Adaptation through inheritance of acquired changes (mechanism was flawed)
Uniformitarianism
observable natural processes responsible for events in the past
Homologous trait
Similar due to inheritance from a common ancestor
= synapomorphy
Adaptations
Traits that have evolved by natural selection
Charles Lyell
Popularized the idea that the earth changes gradually
Thomas Malthus
- Human population size is limited by resources
- Greatly influenced Darwin
Alfred Russel Wallace
Independently formulated the idea of natural selection
Biomarker
Distinctive molecules only produced through biological activity
Chordate Embryonic Features
WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS VERIFIED
Synapomorphies
shared derived characters
Convergent evolution
Independently evolved
Carolus Linnaeus
Father of modern taxonomy
Nicolas Steno
father of geology and stratigraphy
Natural theology
complexity was evidence of design
Georges Cuvier
- Anti-evolutionist
- Concluded that living things had gone extinct
Georges-Louis Buffon
- Species arise as distinct entities
- Diverse environments give rise to new varieties
James Hutton
Earth transformed gradually over vast amounts of time
William Smith
, - Used distinct groups of fossils
- First geological map
Jean Baptiste Lamarck
- Species evolved through natural processes
- Life is constantly generated
- Adaptation through inheritance of acquired changes (mechanism was flawed)
Uniformitarianism
observable natural processes responsible for events in the past
Homologous trait
Similar due to inheritance from a common ancestor
= synapomorphy
Adaptations
Traits that have evolved by natural selection
Charles Lyell
Popularized the idea that the earth changes gradually
Thomas Malthus
- Human population size is limited by resources
- Greatly influenced Darwin
Alfred Russel Wallace
Independently formulated the idea of natural selection
Biomarker
Distinctive molecules only produced through biological activity
Chordate Embryonic Features
