Download Chapter 22: A Darwinian View of Life

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Iowa State University
Kelsey
Bio 211 (5)
Dr. Holscher
10-29-09
Some possible “quiz questions” written by your classmates in SI:
 What is the smallest unit that can evolve?
 Who invented taxonomy?
 What was Cuvier’s view of evolution?
 How did Darwin view the history of life?
 T/F: A drug creates resistance.
 From what did Darwin draw ideas from?
 What is the ability of bacteria and viruses to evolve rapidly and poses a challenge to
human health?
 What is convergent evolution?
 Biogeography is influenced by what?
 What is the broad definition of evolution?
 In what 2 ways is evolution viewed as?
 T/F: Aristotle viewed species as fixed and unchanging.
 T/F: Natural selection can only act on heritable traits.
 T/F: Darwin used the term “evolution” often in his manuscript.
 Darwin viewed evolutionary life as __________, not a ladder.
 What Frenchman believed in catastrophism?
 T/F: Evolution can be defined narrowly as descent with modification.
 T/F: James Hutton and Charles Lyell advocated catstrophism.
 T/F:Fossils are the remains or traces of past organisms found in strata of sedimentary
rock.
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 T/F: Natural selection can act only on acquired traits.
 T/F: Darwin was the first person to present the concept of evolution.