UCF Evolutionary Biology
(PCB4683) with 100% correct
answers ( graded A+)
Charles Darwin - answer English Naturalist who discovered a
major mechanism of how evolution works (natural selection)
Lamarck's theory - answer through use and disuse and the
inheritance of acquired traits (long necks on giraffes)
Uniformitarianism (Lyell's Principles of Geology) - answer Earth
has been undergoing the same natural processes since the
beginning
Theory of Special Creation - answer Each created a deity
independently (perfectly matched their environment)
Species were immutable (never changed, did not go extinct)
The Earth is very young (Biblically-based estimates using
generation time all clustered around 6000 yrs old)
Homology - answer similarity due to common ancestry
comparative anatomy and comparative embryology
can be structural, developmental, genetic
(PCB4683) with 100% correct
answers ( graded A+)
Charles Darwin - answer English Naturalist who discovered a
major mechanism of how evolution works (natural selection)
Lamarck's theory - answer through use and disuse and the
inheritance of acquired traits (long necks on giraffes)
Uniformitarianism (Lyell's Principles of Geology) - answer Earth
has been undergoing the same natural processes since the
beginning
Theory of Special Creation - answer Each created a deity
independently (perfectly matched their environment)
Species were immutable (never changed, did not go extinct)
The Earth is very young (Biblically-based estimates using
generation time all clustered around 6000 yrs old)
Homology - answer similarity due to common ancestry
comparative anatomy and comparative embryology
can be structural, developmental, genetic
