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p. 556 Analyzing Data
OPTIC for the diagram p. 557
Study Guide for Evolution Test
1.) List ALL of Darwin’s findings and explain his theory to include natural
selection and survival of the fittest.
2.) Explain the examples in the book of natural selection and survival of the
fittest.
3.) What is the difference between the inheritance of natural variations and of
acquired characteristics.
4.) Explain Lamarck’s ideas.
5.) Explain Hutton and Lyell’s contributions.
6.) Describe the difference between natural and artificial selection.
7.) List and explain ALL evidence for evolution.
8.) Define homologous, analogous and vestigial structures. Give an example of
each.
9.) What is a mutation?
10.)What did Darwin notice about organisms that where geographically
isolated?
11.)Define Binomial Nomenclature and how is it used?
12.)Which level of the classification groups do homo sapiens and homo habilis
belong to?
13.)What do the nodes on a cladogram represent?
14.)What does a cladogram show?
15.)What do we know about DNA and the evidence it provides for evolution?
16.)Study the chart on p. 523 and on p. 524.
17.)What is the order of the four eras of time?
18.)Study the chart on p. 542.
19.)What evidence does the theory of plate tectonics provide as far as
evolution?
20.)How did mass extinctions contribute to evolution and what events would
trigger a mass extinction?
21.)What was the early atmosphere of Earth like?
22.)Explain endosymbiotic theory.
23.)How does sexual reproduction contribute to diversity?
24.)Define multicellular, unicellular, autotroph, heterotroph, prokaryotic and
eukaryotic.
25.)What is a zygote? Embryo? Fetus?
26.)Study figure 26-15 p. 766.
27.)What did the thumb allow primates to do (Chp. 26)?
28.)Which animals dominated the earth during the Jurassic and cretaceous
Periods (Chp. 19)?
29.)Study the brain diagram.