EVO TEST 1 – Study Guide & Revision Notes
A change in the genetic composition (e.g. relative frequency of alleles, DNA sequences) of a
population over time - correct answer ✔✔biological evolution
Anaximander (610-546 BCE)
Sought ______ _______ rather than mythology - correct answer ✔✔natural explanations
Empedocles (492-432 BCE)
Theory of how we are adapted to our ________
Change is happening over ______ - correct answer ✔✔env time
major belief before Darwin - correct answer ✔✔Fixed Species
Francesco Redi (1626-1697)
meat and maggot experiment
disproved _______ - correct answer ✔✔spontaneous generation
Evolutionary thinkers existed before Darwin. But they either lacked, or proposed unsatisfactory
_________ to drive evolution - correct answer ✔✔mechanisms
Believed that lineages of species persist indefinitely; changing from one form to another (no
diversification/branching or extinction). - correct answer ✔✔lamarckian transformism
Lamarck's conception of evolution proposed a grand, novel idea and two mechanisms - correct
answer ✔✔internal force, inheritance of acquired characters
A change in the genetic composition (e.g. relative frequency of alleles, DNA sequences) of a
population over time - correct answer ✔✔biological evolution
Anaximander (610-546 BCE)
Sought ______ _______ rather than mythology - correct answer ✔✔natural explanations
Empedocles (492-432 BCE)
Theory of how we are adapted to our ________
Change is happening over ______ - correct answer ✔✔env time
major belief before Darwin - correct answer ✔✔Fixed Species
Francesco Redi (1626-1697)
meat and maggot experiment
disproved _______ - correct answer ✔✔spontaneous generation
Evolutionary thinkers existed before Darwin. But they either lacked, or proposed unsatisfactory
_________ to drive evolution - correct answer ✔✔mechanisms
Believed that lineages of species persist indefinitely; changing from one form to another (no
diversification/branching or extinction). - correct answer ✔✔lamarckian transformism
Lamarck's conception of evolution proposed a grand, novel idea and two mechanisms - correct
answer ✔✔internal force, inheritance of acquired characters
