Lyell Guides d'étude, Notes de cours & Résumés

UCLA Anthropology 1 Midterm 1 Exam Questions And Answers Rosalind Franklin - ANS produced x-ray photographs of DNA which help to uncover the structure Anaximander - ANS speculated that living beings arose gradually from water and suggested that men originated from animals Aristotle - ANS believed that species and the universe are fixed and determined and living species don't go extinct or evolve Great Chain of Being - ANS scale of more complex organisms better than oth...

Uniformitarianism correct answer: same process have operated over very long period of time in gradual manner (Charles Lyell) Struggle for Exsistance correct answer: organisms are in a constant struggle to obtain resources and to use these resources to produce more offspring than those around them (Erasmus Darwain) Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics correct answer: "during the lifetime of an organism the habitat brings about changes in the structure, which are passed down across ...

What is a good, brief definition of evolution as relevant to biology? - Change over time in the characteristics of a population Does the theory of evolution imply a particular mechanism (yes/no)? - No What phrase did Darwin prefer to the word evolution? - Descent with modification Prior to the formulation of the idea (not really a theory yet) of evolution species were viewed as ___. - Species were unchanging How did Aristotle rank species in his ladder of Nature? - Proximity to perfection ...

ANTH 1001 - Tague - Exam 1 Questions and Answers Already Passed 1. **What principle did Karl von Linne (Carl Linnaeus) advocate regarding species?** - All species were created by God and were fixed in their characteristics, unchangeable. 2. **What theory did Jean Baptiste Lamarck propose regarding inheritance and adaptation?** - Organisms modify organs or establish new ones to meet survival needs. Changes acquired within one's lifetime can be inherited by offspring. 3. **What c...

Aristotle, a philosopher : Pre-300 BCE -described species as fixed -Scale of nature: arranges species in order of lowest to highest complexity -linear hierarchy Hutton, a geologist : 1795 -proposed gradualism -change is a slow but continuous process Thomas Robert Malthus, an economist : 1798 -published "Essay on the Principle of Population'" -Human population growth is limited by resources; At some point we will reach carrying capacity, 2 | P a g e -can't grow exponential...

What did Aristotle believe? correct answer: Species were fixed creations arranged by their complexity Who contributed to Darwin's thinking? correct answer: •Charles Lyell •Thomas Malthus •George Cuvier •James Hutton •John Baptiste Lamarck •Alfred Russell Wallace Charles Lyell correct answer: Uniformitarism (geologic processed still change earth) Principles of Geology correct answer: •published by Lyell just before Beagle set sail and read by Darwin •explained...

Lamarck proposed ~ a mechanisms for evolution through the idea of acquired characteristics, which is incorrect Malthus suggested that ~ war, famine, and disease were necessary to keep populations from growing too large Lyell described ~ the Earth as having forces that cause change that occurred in the past and still occurring today Darwin proposed that ~ natural selection as mechanism for how evolution occurs suggesting that the environment selects those alleles best suite...

Bio 182 Final Exam Questions with Correct Answers Which of the following would be an example of convergent evolution? A. Hummingbird Bill sizes change in the shape to easily fit into flowers B. Competition among finches of Galapagos islands causing speciation C. Anteaters in Australia and anteaters and South America both developing long narrow skulls D. Maple trees migrating northward after glaciers started to recede in North America - Answer-C. Anteaters in Australia and anteaters an...

absorptive heterotroph - An organism (usually a fungus) that obtains its food by secreting digestive enzymes into the environment to break down large food molecules, then absorbing the breakdown products. acidophile - able to live in extremely acidic environments adaptations - inherited aspects of an individual that allow it to outcompete other members of a population that lack the trait; evolve through natural selection Alfred Russel Wallace - came up with a mechanism for evolution simila...

Changes in heritable characteristics of a population over time is called correct answers Blank 1: evolution or biological evolution Which of the following statements is typically used as a working definition of species? A group of individuals that are likely to encounter each other and interbreed. A group of related and unrelated individuals that look alike. A group of related individuals that share a distinctive form. correct answers A group of related individuals that share a distincti...