Biol201 Final Exam - Concordia
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evolution - ✔✔Change in a kind of organism over time; process by which
modern organisms have descended from ancient organisms.
Grand Unifying Theory - ✔✔possible explanation that is supported by vast
evidence
Plato - ✔✔species have a fixed essence and it does not change
Aristotle - ✔✔introduced scala naturae, all things may be placed on an
unbroken ladder from lower forms to humans, first idea of classifying
organisms
Cordus Linneaus - ✔✔species are grouped according to their place in
God's great design, set framework of classification system
Jean-Baptist Pierre Antoine de Monet - ✔✔first to suggest how life changed
over time and why, published Philosophic Zoologique ... combined living
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,species with fossils and lines of decent, said new species arrive by
spontaneous germination, evolve up scala naturae
use and disuse - ✔✔the idea that parts of the body that are used
extensively become larger and stronger, while those that are not used
deteriorate - first principle
Inheritance - ✔✔The process by which physical and biological
characteristics are transmitted from the parent (or parents) to the offspring -
second principle
Darwin and Wallace - ✔✔the two individuals who came up with the idea of
natural selection. "On the Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection"
- finches
natural selection - ✔✔evolution is driven by
Evolution Mechanisms - ✔✔variation, heredity, survival of fittest, natural
selection
variation - evolution mechanism - ✔✔individuals in a species show a wide
range of variation
heredity - evolution mechanism - ✔✔how favorable genes pass on to next
generations
natural selection - evolution mechanism - ✔✔offspring with survival traits
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, survival of fittest - evolution mechanism - ✔✔some traits combined with
certain environments show more success
mutation can cause - ✔✔evolution because the ones with the mutation
survive ex. moths
Evolution is measured as - ✔✔frequency of change in alleles in inheritance
living things have evolved by - ✔✔- earth formed 4.5 billion years ago
- oceans formed 4 billion years ago
- 1st fossils of prokaryotes 3.5 billion years ago
First common ancestor - ✔✔prokaryotes
eukaryotes formed by - ✔✔engulfing prokaryotes that then became
mitochondria and chloroplasts
natural selection - ✔✔A process in which individuals that have certain
inherited traits tend to survive and reproduce at higher rates than other
individuals because of those traits.
directional selection - ✔✔Form of natural selection in which the entire curve
moves; occurs when individuals at one end of a distribution curve have
higher fitness than individuals in the middle or at the other end of the curve
stabilizing selection - ✔✔Natural selection that favors intermediate variants
by acting against extreme phenotypes (weight of babies at birth)
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University Q&A 100% Solved | Graded
A+
evolution - ✔✔Change in a kind of organism over time; process by which
modern organisms have descended from ancient organisms.
Grand Unifying Theory - ✔✔possible explanation that is supported by vast
evidence
Plato - ✔✔species have a fixed essence and it does not change
Aristotle - ✔✔introduced scala naturae, all things may be placed on an
unbroken ladder from lower forms to humans, first idea of classifying
organisms
Cordus Linneaus - ✔✔species are grouped according to their place in
God's great design, set framework of classification system
Jean-Baptist Pierre Antoine de Monet - ✔✔first to suggest how life changed
over time and why, published Philosophic Zoologique ... combined living
1
©JOSHCLAY 2024/2025. YEAR PUBLISHED 2024.
,species with fossils and lines of decent, said new species arrive by
spontaneous germination, evolve up scala naturae
use and disuse - ✔✔the idea that parts of the body that are used
extensively become larger and stronger, while those that are not used
deteriorate - first principle
Inheritance - ✔✔The process by which physical and biological
characteristics are transmitted from the parent (or parents) to the offspring -
second principle
Darwin and Wallace - ✔✔the two individuals who came up with the idea of
natural selection. "On the Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection"
- finches
natural selection - ✔✔evolution is driven by
Evolution Mechanisms - ✔✔variation, heredity, survival of fittest, natural
selection
variation - evolution mechanism - ✔✔individuals in a species show a wide
range of variation
heredity - evolution mechanism - ✔✔how favorable genes pass on to next
generations
natural selection - evolution mechanism - ✔✔offspring with survival traits
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, survival of fittest - evolution mechanism - ✔✔some traits combined with
certain environments show more success
mutation can cause - ✔✔evolution because the ones with the mutation
survive ex. moths
Evolution is measured as - ✔✔frequency of change in alleles in inheritance
living things have evolved by - ✔✔- earth formed 4.5 billion years ago
- oceans formed 4 billion years ago
- 1st fossils of prokaryotes 3.5 billion years ago
First common ancestor - ✔✔prokaryotes
eukaryotes formed by - ✔✔engulfing prokaryotes that then became
mitochondria and chloroplasts
natural selection - ✔✔A process in which individuals that have certain
inherited traits tend to survive and reproduce at higher rates than other
individuals because of those traits.
directional selection - ✔✔Form of natural selection in which the entire curve
moves; occurs when individuals at one end of a distribution curve have
higher fitness than individuals in the middle or at the other end of the curve
stabilizing selection - ✔✔Natural selection that favors intermediate variants
by acting against extreme phenotypes (weight of babies at birth)
3
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