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CH. 15 PRETEST 1. T/F DARWIN BEGAN TO FORMULATE HIS IDEA OF NATURAL SELECTION AFTER HE MADE OBSERVATIONS OF MANY SPECIES AND THEIR GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION. 2. HOW DID HUTTON AND LYLE INFLUENCE CHARLES DARWIN? 3. WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE NOW FAMOUS ISLANDS THAT CHARLES DARWIN MADE MANY OF HIS OBSERVATIONS ON WHILE ON HIS VOYAGE ON THE H.M.S BEAGLE? 4. T/F CHARLES DARWIN OBSERVED FINCHES ON DIFFERENT ISLANDS AND WONDERED IF THE DIFFERENT SPECIES OF FINCHES HAD ONCE BEEN MEMBERS OF THE SAME SPECIES. 5. T/F CHARLES DARWIN PUBLISHED HIS BOOK ON EVOLUTION IMMEDIATELY AFTER RETURNING HOME FROM HIS 5 YEAR VOYAGE. 6. CHANGES IN THE INHERITED TRAITS OF A POPULATION BEST DESCRIBES THE RESULTS OF _________________. 7. DESCRIBE THE IDEA OF INHERITANCE OF ACQUIRED TRAITS. 8. THE FACT THAT MANY VERTEBRATE ANIMALS HAVE SIMILAR NUMBER AND LOCATION OF BONES IS BEST EXPLAINED BY THE BELIEF THAT _________________________________________________. 9. GIVE AN EXAMPLE OF A VESTGIAL STRUCTURE. 10. WHO PROPOSED THE HYPOTHESIS THAT SPECIES CHANGE OVER TIME BECAUSE OF NATURAL SELECTION? 11. A PROCESS OF CHANGE IN A SPECIES OVER TIME IS CAUSED BY _____________________________________. 12. T/F HERITABLE VARIATION AND NATURAL SELECTION IS PART OF CHARLES DARWIN’S THEORY OF EVOLUTION. 13. T/F MODERN EVOLUTIONARY THEORY BELIEVES THAT ACQUIRED TRAITS CAN BE PASSED ON TO THEIR OFFSPRING. 14. THE IDEA THAT PAST GEOLOGICAL EVENTS MUST BE EXPLAINED IN TERMS OF PROCESSES OBSERVABLE TODAY WAS FIRST PRESENTED BY ______________________. 15. THE IDEA THAT BODY STRUCTURE CAN CHANGE BECAUSE OF THE ACTIONS OF THE ORGANISM WAS FIRST PROPOSED BY _____________________. 16. WHAT IS MEANT BY THE TERM “FITNESS”? 17. T/F ADAPTATIONS CAN BE PHYSICAL OR BEHAVIORIAL. 18. HOW DID CHARLES DARWIN VIEW THE FOSSIL RECORD? 19. T/F CHARLES DARWINS THEORY OF EVOLUTION EXPLAINED HOW TRAITS WERE PAST FROM ONE GENERATION TO ANOTHER. 20. EXPLAIN WHAT CHARLES DARWIN OBSERVED ON THE GALAPAGOS ISLANDS. 21. WHAT DID LYLE AND HUTTON SAY ABOUT THE AGE OF THE EARTH THAT HELPED CHARLES DARWIN’S THEORY ? 22. T/F MALTHUS TRIED TO EXPLAIN HOW ROCK LAYERS FORM AND CHANGE OVVER TIME. 23. HUTTON AND LYLE BOTH BELIEVE THE EARTH WAS _______________YEARS OLD. 24. MALTHUS BELIEVED THAT ONLY FAMINE, DISEASE AND WAR COULD PREVENT THE ___________________OF THE HUMAN POPULATION. 25. T/F DARWIN WAS INFLUENCED BY THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE STRUCTURE OF DNA. 26. ACCORDING TO EVOLUTIONARY THEORY, IF MODERN STAR FISH LARVAE LOOK LIKE PRIMATIVE VERTEBRATE LARVAE THIS WOULD PROVE THAT ___________________________________________. 27. WHAT WAS THE NAME OF CHARLES DARWIN’S BOOK AND WHEN DID HE PUBLISH IT? 28. WHAT IS ARTIFICAL SELECTION? 29. WHICH SCIENTIST PROMTED DARWIN TO PUBLISH HIS BOOK? 30. ACCORDING TO THE THEORY OF NATURAL SELECTION WHICH SPECIES ARE MOST LIKELY TO SURVIVE? 31. HOW OLD DID MOST PEOPLE THINK THE EARTH WAS IN CHARLES DARWINS TIME? 32. ARTIFICAL SELECTION IS ALSO CALLED __________________. 33. AN ORGANISMS ABILITY TO SURVIVE AND REPRODUCE IS CALLED _______________. 34. T/F DARWIN FOUND SEA SHELLS ON TOPS OF MOUNTAINS. 35. EXPLAIN HOW MALTHUS IDEAS HELPED DARWIN WITH HIS THEORY.