Evolution
Quiz 1 - History
Match scientists to theories
Describe each theory
List geology concepts that affected the development of evolutionary theory
List Lamarks basics and mistakes
Scientists / Philosophers
Alfred Russel Wallace
Aristotle
Charles Darwin
Charles Lyell
Georges Cuvier
Gregory Mendel
James Hutton
John Baptist Lamarck
Linnaeus
Thomas Malthus
Theories
Catastrophism
Common Ancestry
Gradualism
Law of Use and Disuse
Natural Selection
Paleontology
Particle Inheritance
Struggle for Existence
Taxonomy
Uniformitarianism
Geology & Evolution
Earth is Ancient
Earth is always gradually changing
Earth processes occur at fairly uniform rates
Species often do not survive earth changes
Lamarks Basics:
Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics
Law of Use and Disuse
Tendency Towards Perfection
Lamark’s Mistakes (3)
Quiz 2 – Darwin’s History
Dates:
Birth
Voyage
Publication of On the Origin of Species
Naturalist
Ship Name
Voyage description (locations visited / tracing on a map)
Galapagos Islands
Location
Why so great for evolutionary study
Examples of Animals and evolutionary adaptations
Darwin’s Basic Observations during voyages (3)
Examples of Physical Evidence Collected by Darwin (2)
Darwin’s Assumptions (3)
Darwin’s Conclusions (3)
Book Title
Why the publishing delay?
What encouraged him to finally publish?
How/where was the theory presented even before the book?
Reception and criticism
Quiz 3 – Evolution Basics
Evolution
Generation
Offspring
Population Size
Linear Growth
Logistic Growth
Exponential Growth
Resources (Definition and examples)
Limiting Factors
Density-Dependent Factors
Density-Independent Factors
Struggle for Existence
Competition
Predation
Disease
Symbiosis
Natural Disasters
Artificial Habitat Destruction
Variation
Inheritable
Adaptation
Physical Adaptation
Behavioral Adaptation
Natural Selection
Fitness
Species
Descent with Modification
Ultimate implication of decent with modification
Speciation
Artificial Selection
Criticism to Darwin’s Theories
Missing mechanism
Social upheaval
Evidence for Evolution
Anatomy
Homologous Structure
Analogous Structures
Vestigial Structures
Embryology
Similarities in Embryonic Development
Molecular Biology
DNA similarities
Microbiology & Field Biology
Microevolution of virus and bacteria (example: drug-resistance)
Animal microevolution and selection in response to human induced habitat change
Fossil Record
Geographical Distribution of Species
Zoology (Fauna)
Botany (Flora)
Microevolution
Macroevolution