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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.