WKU BIO 316 Exam 1 Questions with Correct Answers Graded A+

WKU BIO 316 Exam 1 Questions with Correct Answers Graded A+ How do individuals gather information? - Answers What we are told, Faith, and Science. Components of Science - Answers 1.) Facts 2.) Hypotheses 3.) Laws 4.) Theories. Criteria of Theories - Answers 1.) Testable 2.) Falsifiable 3.) Subject to revision and adjustments 4.) Can't be proven- only supported or falsified. Biology - Answers Study of Life Biological Evolution - Answers Change in populations over time Evolutionary Biology - Answers Branch of Biology that assess how populations change over time. Microevolution - Answers Change in allele frequencies within populations. Macroevolution - Answers Larger scale change, providing evidence of how we assess relationships between taxa. Evolution as Fact - Answers Evidence of change over time. (populations can change, time is largely dependent on how long generations take. Genetic traits are heritable.) Evolution as Theory - Answers Assessing mechanisms of how evolution occurred (embodies the four primary mechanisms of evolutionary change, and enhances our capacity to make predictions.) Anaximander (610-546 BC) - Answers Speculated: Early animals rose from the ocean, humans came from the mouths of giant fish, and complexity rose from simple life. Aristotle (384-322 BC) - Answers Advocated the importance of observation, wrote "History of Animals", also wrote "Scala Natural" When did the Rise of Natural Theology occur? - Answers During the Renaissance Period. (Earth Age, Divine Creation, Devine Variation) Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon - Answers Made an estimate that the earth was 75,000 years old. Wrote Histoire Naturelle. Little relation to biblical account. Industrial Revolution and Geological advances. - Answers Brought about: 1.) Patterns of geological succession. 2.) How is organic matter mineralized. 3.) How long fossilizations take. 3.) How layering of fossils is related with depth.