Download Evolution Guided Reading Questions: Part 1

Evolution Guided Reading Questions
These questions will follow the book chapter 13.
1. What was Georges Buffon’s contribution to the discovery of evolution?
2. What was Jean Baptiste Lamarck’s contribution to the discovery of evolution?
3. Lamarck made a few mistakes when trying to explain how animals evolve. What was Lamarck’s idea that
was incorrect?
4. Darwin’s view of life was descent with modification. Briefly summarize what Darwin contributed in at least
4 sentences.
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5. What was the name of the book that Darwin wrote?
6. What did Darwin see as the basic mechanism of evolution?
7. What do overproduction of offspring, limited natural resources, and inheritable variations have to do with
organisms becoming adapted to their environment?
8. Define natural selection:
9. Define artificial selection:
10. Give an example of artificial selection.
11. What is a paleontologist?
12. How can strata be used to determine the relative age of fossils?
13. How has biogeography given evidence for evolution?
14. How has comparative anatomy given evidence for evolution?
15. What is homology?
16. Give an example of homologous structures.
17. What is meant by a vestigial structure? Give an example of a vestigial structure.
18. How is comparative embryology given evidence for evolution?
19. How has molecular biology given evidence for evolution?
20. In what sense is natural selection more of an editing process than a creative process?
21. Define population.
22. Define species.
23. Do populations or species evolve?
24. What is characteristic of populations is common for populations confined to widely separated islands or
mountain ranges?
25. What is meant by a gene pool?
26. Define microevolution.
27. What is meant by the Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium?
28. What conditions must be satisfied in order for a population to be in Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium?
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29. What is the Hardy-Weinberg Equation?
30. What is genetic drift?
31. What is the bottleneck effect?
32. What is the founder effect?
33. What is gene flow?
34. What types of cells must mutations occur in if the mutation is to be passed on to offspring and potentially
affect the population’s gene pool?
35. Are mutations usually beneficial or harmful?
36. Define heterozygote advantage and give an example of it.
37. What is a neutral variation and give an example.
38. Define stabilizing selection and give an example.
39. Define directional stabilizing selection and give an example.
40. Define disruptive selection and give an example.
41. What is sexual dimorphism?
42. List the
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4 reasons why natural selection cannot fashion perfect organisms.
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Guided Reading Chapter 14
1. Define speciation:
2. Describe the contributions of Linnaeus.
3. What happens to the offspring if two different species mate?
4. What are four different ways biologists define a species. How are they different?
5. What are the five main types of prezygotic barriers?
6. What is allopatric speciation?
7. Describe the experiment done by Dianne Dodd. What did it prove?
8. What is a polyploidy and how does it relate to sympatric speciation?
9. Explain how adaptive radiation occurs.
10. How does the gradualism model fit Darwin’s view of the origin of species?
11. Define the term exaptation and give an example.
12. Explain the concept of paedomorphosis.
Guided Reading Questions for 15.5 – 15.10.
1. What is the hierarchical classification from largest to smallest?
2. Explain the difference between a phylogenetic tree and a cladogram.
3. What is a clade?
4. What is an ingroup and outgroup?
5. Explain the differences between the three-domain and five-kingdom system. Why was there a change?