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| Charles Darwin's tutor at Cambridge |
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| Requested a "gentleman companion" |
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| Principle of independent assortment |
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| Wrote "An Essay on the Principle of Population" |
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| Inheritence of acquired traits |
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| Wrote "Phylogenetic Systematics" |
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| Wrote "Voyage of the Beagle" |
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| Uniformitarianism, and the father of Geology |
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| Wrote "Genetics and the Origin of Species" |
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| Darwin's maternal grandfather |
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| During cladogenesis, _______ counter-acts the effects of mutation, natural selection, and genetic drift. |
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| Charles Darwin was a ________. |
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| Mendel used cross-fertilization to produce ___________. |
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| the first filial generation |
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| In Mendel's experiments, recessive traits appeared to "skip" which generation? |
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| the first filial generation |
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| The taxonomic name for a human is __________. |
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| Homo sapiens (ITALICIZED) |
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| A population is more likely to undergo speciation if it is _________. |
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| Small and under strong selection pressure |
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| Catastrophism and Uniformitarianism |
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| 19th Century theories concerning the tempo and mode of geological change |
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| Punctuated equilibrium and Phyletic gradualism |
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| 20th century theories concerning the tempo and mode of evolutionary change |
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| Evolution is God's mechanism for creation |
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| "Non-Darwinian" evolution |
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| Extinction of the dinosaurs |
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| Humans remain as only living species of Homo |
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| Gametes are formed during the process of mitosis (T or F) |
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| The mechanisms underlying microevolution and macroevolution are the same (T or F) |
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| The Ussher-Lightfoot date for the beginning of the Earth is 4004 BC (T or F) |
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| Males have nipples because they once assisted females in breast feeding (T or F) |
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| A gene is a DNA sequence that codes for a polypeptide chain (T or F) |
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| We can expect that humans will evolve to tolerate air pollution (T or F) |
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| People with Down's syndrome are missing a chromosome (T or F) |
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| False. They have an extra chromosome |
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| Humans brains stoppped getting larger 50,000 years ago (T or F) |
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| Evolution is teleological (T or F) |
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| True. (Def. of teleological: always moving toward a goal) |
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| The population ________ (can/cannot) survive without variation. |
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| The earliest life appeared _____ BYA |
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| 1 gene effects many traits |
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| many genes effect one trait |
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| The name that genes are also referred to as |
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| The average human brain weighs ________ grams. |
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| Gradual change through time |
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| splitting off to create a new species |
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There are 2 ways to pass on genes:
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1. Have children
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| Cost < Genetic Relativeness x Benefit |
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| similarity due to common descent |
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| due to convergent evolution, no common ancestry involved. Independent adaption due to similar environment. |
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