Biology 152 Exam 1 UW Madison Questions
And Answers 100% Pass
What is evolution? - ANS decent with modification
Pattern change - ANS Change recorded in anatomy, fossils, embryos, genomes, and
distributions
Process change - ANS Change consistency of observable and testable mechanisms
Population - ANS is the unit of evolution
Aristotle - ANS viewed species as fixed and arranged on a Scala Naturae
William Paley - ANS Naturally occurring complex structures
Carolus Linnaeus - ANS developed binomial nomenclature
James Hutton - ANS Father of Geology, Uniformitarianism
Tomas Malthus - ANS Overpopulation theory
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Jean Leopold Nicolas Frederic Cuvier - ANS Father of paleontology
mechanism for evolution - ANS natural selection
inheritance of acquired characteristics - ANS The hypothesis that organisms' bodies change
during their lifetimes by use and disuse and that these changes are inherited by their offspring
Charles Darwin - ANS English natural scientist who formulated a theory of evolution by
natural selection (1809-1882)
Sarawak Law - ANS Every species has come into existence close to another species
Natural selection 4 parts - ANS Variation, heredity, natural selection, differentiate
reproduction
Darwin's "Great analogy" - ANS Artificial selection
The mechanism of heredity - ANS Genetics
Lineages - ANS Splitting or speciation
biological species concept - ANS Species is a group of populations whose members have the
potential to produce fertile offspring.
Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium - ANS condition that occurs when the frequency of alleles in a
particular gene pool remain constant over time p+q=1 p^2+2pq+q^2=1
Assumptions of Hardy-Weinberg - ANS 1. No mutation