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Unit 8- Evolution Test Review
1. Define evolution
2. What is spontaneous generation (abiogenesis)?
3. What is biogenesis?
4. Describe the experiments of Pasteur and Redi and how they proved spontaneous
generation incorrect.
5. What is artificial selection?
6. How did Miller and Urey test the Chemical Evolution hypothesis and what was their
result?
7. Describe the 1st cells (autotroph or heterotroph; prokaryote or eukaryote; aerobic or
anaerobic)?
8. Describe the early Earth. Why wouldn’t there be liquid oceans at first? What was in the
atmosphere? What wasn’t?
9. What is the Endosymbiotic Hypothesis? What does it have to do with chloroplasts and
mitochondria?
10. What are the 4 evidences of evolution given in your notes?
11. What is the difference between a homologous structure and a vestigial structure?
12. What is comparative embryology?
13. What is comparative biochemistry?
14. What kind of rocks are fossils found in?
15. Explain relative dating of fossils
16. Explain radioactive dating
17. What is a half life?
18. What was Lamarck’s (incorrect) theory called and what did it say?
19. What was Darwin’s theory called and what were its four points?
20. What were the Galapagos Islands and what did Darwin study there? What was the
name of the book he eventually published?
21. Is the peppered moth an example of Darwin’s theory or Lamarck’s? How so?
22. Where does variation come from in a species?
23. What caused the change in the peppered moths from being mostly light colored to
mostly dark colored?
24. What is adaptive radiation?
25. What is convergent evolution?
26. Compare gradualism vs punctuated equilibrium
27. Define speciation
28. What are the three ways the species are isolated?