BIOL 112 exam #1 Basu TAMU
evolution - Answer Change in a kind of organism over time; process by which modern
organisms have descended from ancient organisms.
antiquity - Answer -aristotle
fixed ideal species
scala nature
Age of Reason - Answer -Linnaeus: botanist, one of the most influential scientists of his time
orderly, nested classification
binomial naming
Hutton and Lyell - Answer Geologists that said the earth was very old and had changed over
time
James Hutton - Answer gradualism, father of modern geology
Charles Lyell - Answer Father of Geology, Uniformitarianism
same geologic process in the past as today
Erasmus Darwin - Answer -"natural philosophy" on evolution
-wrote ideas that "forms minute" slowly acquired complexity over time
Lamarck - Answer linked evolution to adaptation
theory of inheritance of acquired characteristics - Answer Lamarck's theory that physical
changes caused by an organism's environment can be passed on to offspring
Charles Darwin - Answer English natural scientist who formulated a theory of evolution by
natural selection (1809-1882)
Evolution Theory development - Answer essay written in 1844 but not published
1858 Alfred Wallace letter to Darwin with same ideas
both presented papers together in 1858
evolution - Answer Change in a kind of organism over time; process by which modern
organisms have descended from ancient organisms.
antiquity - Answer -aristotle
fixed ideal species
scala nature
Age of Reason - Answer -Linnaeus: botanist, one of the most influential scientists of his time
orderly, nested classification
binomial naming
Hutton and Lyell - Answer Geologists that said the earth was very old and had changed over
time
James Hutton - Answer gradualism, father of modern geology
Charles Lyell - Answer Father of Geology, Uniformitarianism
same geologic process in the past as today
Erasmus Darwin - Answer -"natural philosophy" on evolution
-wrote ideas that "forms minute" slowly acquired complexity over time
Lamarck - Answer linked evolution to adaptation
theory of inheritance of acquired characteristics - Answer Lamarck's theory that physical
changes caused by an organism's environment can be passed on to offspring
Charles Darwin - Answer English natural scientist who formulated a theory of evolution by
natural selection (1809-1882)
Evolution Theory development - Answer essay written in 1844 but not published
1858 Alfred Wallace letter to Darwin with same ideas
both presented papers together in 1858
