BYU-I Bio 181 Evolution exam Questions With 100% Correct Answers.

Biogeography Analogous structures - Structures that look the same, but not because they shared a common ancestor homologous structures - Structures that look the same because they did share a common ancestor James Hutton - Geologist that believed in deep time (meaning the earth is super old). Charles Lyell - Believed earth of 4.6 billion years old Got idea from James Hutton Carl Linnaeus - Created binomial nomenclature Alfred Wallace - English contemporary to Darwin Published his research at the same time as Darwin, also about natural selection. Georges Cuvier - Father of paleontology Created theory of catastrophism Jean-Baptiste Lamarck - Created Lamarckism or Lamarckian evolution (which is pseudoscience) Thomas Malthus - Economist who taught about limited resources. Showed how a population cannot exceed its resources Inheritance of acquired Characteristics - Inheritance of acquired characteristicsArtificial selection - intentional reproduction of individuals in a population that have desired traits Fitness - How many offspring an organism has that go on to make more offspring Survival of the fitttest - Continued existence of organisms that are best adapted to their environment Define evolution - A change in allele frequencies in a population from generation to generation Which scientific concept did Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace independently discover? a. mutation b. natural selection c. overbreeding d. sexual reproduction - B. Natural selection