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30 Cards in this Set
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In thee 1960's who began a campaign to eradicate the mosquitosthat transmit milaria? What did they use?
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-World Health Organization
-DDT |
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What is the nameof Charles Darwins book? When was it published?
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-Charles Darwin's On the Orgin of Species by Means of Natural Selection
-November 24, 1859 |
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Darwin argued that contemporary species arose from what? Through a process of "_____ _____ _____" with _____ _____ as the mechanism.
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-Ancestors
-"Decent with modification" -natural selection |
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The basic idea of natural selection is that: (2 things)
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-Organisms can change over generations
-individuals with certian heritable traits leave more offspring than others |
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What is the result of natural selection?
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evolutionary adaptation
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What challenged the notion that the Earth was relatively young and populated by unrelated species?
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The Origin of Species
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What was Aristotle's belief?
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that species are fixed and do not evolve
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Who fortified Aristotle's belief by saying that the earth was only about 6,000 years old?
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Judeo-Christian culture
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When did the study of fossils begin to take form as a branch of science?
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mid-1700's
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Name two things that Naturalist George Buffon stated
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1) That the earth might be older than 6,000 years
2) there were similarities between fossils and lving species |
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Name two things that Jean Baptiste Lamarck stated:
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1)Organisms evolved by the process of adaptation
2)Some erroneous ideas, such as the inheritance of aqquired characteristics |
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In December 1831, Darwin left Great Britian on what ship to explore the world?
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HMS Beagle
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On his journey on the Beagle, Darwin did what two things?
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1)Collected thousands of specimens
2) Observed various adaptations in organisms |
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Darwin was intrigued by what two things?
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1)The geographic distribution of organisms on the Galapagos Islands
2) The fact that Galapagos organisms resembled those in South America |
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Darwin was strongly influenced by the writings of what geologist?
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Charles Lyell
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Darwin would later apply Lyell's principle of what?
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gradualism
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Darwin made what two points in the Orgin of Species?
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1)organisms inhabiting the earth today decended from ancestral species.
2)Natural Selection was the mechanism for decent with modification. |
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Has biological evolution left observable marks?
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Yes
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What are preserved remnants or impressions left by organisms that lived in the past?
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Fossils
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Where are fossils most often found?
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Sedimentary Rocks
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What is the fossil record?
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The ordered sequence of fossils as they appear in rock layers.
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Scientists that study fossils are called what?
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Paleontologists
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Define Biogeography.
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The study of the geographic distribution of species.
*It first suggested to Darwin that today's organisms evolved from ancestral forms* |
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Define Comparative Anatomy.
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-The comparison of of body structure between different species.
-It confirms that evolution is a remodeling process. |
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Define Homology.
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The similiarity in structures due to common ancestry.
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Define Comparitive Embrology.
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The comparison of structers that appear during the development of different organisms.
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Define Molecular Biology
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It can be determined by comparing genes and protiens of different organisms.
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Darwin's finches are exellent examples of what two things?
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1)natural selection
2)adaptive evolution |
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Darwin based his theory of natural selection on two key observations. Name the first one.
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Overproduction. All species tend to produce excessive numbers. Tis leads to a struggle for existance.
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Darwin based his theory of natural selection on two key observations. Name the second one.
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Individual variation. Variation exists among individuals in a population. Much of this variation is heritable.
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