Lamarck - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

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Who of the following scientists would postulate that giraffes have long necks because they wanted to eat the leaves of tall trees? Possible Answers: Watson & Crick Salk Leeuwenhoek Lamarck Darwin Correct answer: Lamarck Questions 2 Which of the following theories representing Lamarckian evolution is false? Possible Answers: All of the choices are correct EXAM Inheritance of acquired characteristics Theory of genetic chance Principle of use and disuse Correct answer: Theory of genetic chance...

TAMU Biology 112 Final Exam Questions with 100% Correct Answers Aristotle - Answer- Scala naturae Linnaeus - Answer- Binomial nomenclature Darwin - Answer- Fossils, strata Cuvier - Answer- Strata, extinction, Opposed evolution, catastrophic events caused extinction Hutton and Lyell - Answer- Gradualism, continuous geological growth, earth is OLD Lamarck - Answer- Use it or lose it, we get bigger and better, Adaptations - Answer- Inherited characteristics that enhance survival and reprod...

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

Biogeography Analogous structures - Structures that look the same, but not because they shared a common ancestor homologous structures - Structures that look the same because they did share a common ancestor James Hutton - Geologist that believed in deep time (meaning the earth is super old). Charles Lyell - Believed earth of 4.6 billion years old Got idea from James Hutton Carl Linnaeus - Created binomial nomenclature Alfred Wallace - English contemporary to Darwin Published his resea...

Question 1 Who of the following scientists would postulate that giraffes have long necks because they wanted to eat the leaves of tall trees? Possible Answers: Salk Lamarck Leeuwenhoek Darwin Watson & Crick Correct answer: Lamarck Question 2 Which of the following theories representing Lamarckian evolution is false? Possible Answers: EXAM Inheritance of acquired characteristics Theory of genetic chance All of the choices are correct Principle of use and disuse Correct answer: Theory of gene...

Lamarck correct answers Came up with the Use/Disuse theory Adaptations correct answers A result of expressed heritable traits. Generally are positive Maladaptive correct answers A negative affect on an organisms's ability to reproduce True or False: Genes do NOT matter in relative fitness correct answers True What determines fitness? correct answers How many offspring you produce Ability to avoid predators, using shelter, attracting mates, and a good metabolism are examples of ...

AP Biology Exam Questions and Answers Graded A+ What are the 2 theories of evolution? Explain each Gradualism- geologic changes result from slow, gradual, continuous process Punctuated Equilibrium- Long period of stasis punctuated by short bursts of significant change. What was Lamarck's theory and why was it wrong? Lamarck = Inheritance of Acquired characteristics- traits acquired during lifetime could be passed on What is natural selection Comptetition for limited resources re...

how many species live in planet Earth? - ANSWER-unknown-roughly 3 to 5 million why is life so incredibly diverse, yet so strangely similar? - ANSWER-organisms can contain similar features. planes have wings, birds have wings-this feature is useful for different things (different for penguins, pelicans, bats, eagles) true or false: biodiversity on earth will likely decrease in the near future? - ANSWER- true or false: scientists believe in evolution even though they currently lack eviden...

STSC Exam 1 Question and answers 100% correct 2024 great chain of being - correct answer a hierarchical structure that distinguishes all things linearly based on medieval Christian beliefs that God intended for such order to exist in his world. God is at the top, angels, planets, kings, nobles, commoners, animals, plants, stones, metals, elements. Before adopted by medieval Christians, probably derived from philosophers like Aristotle and Plato. The natural order was present in society in ter...