Bio280 Exam 1 Chapters 1 TO 4 Questions and Answers

Great Chain of Being Answer species were arranged on a scale from lower to higher forms Linnean classification Answer A classification system that breaks down animals into seven levels, each level being a taxon taxa Answer nested hierarchy of groups taxonomy Answer the science of describing, naming, and classifying species of living or fossil organisms Nicolas Steno Answer discovered that animal and plant remains were preserved and transformed into stone in 1666 natural theology Answer emerged from the 17th century as a response to the rise of physics and engineering, anatomy provided evidence of divine design 70,000 Answer Comte de Buffon hypothesized that the Earth was _________ years old based on laws of atoms and particles that explained that species were formed from organic particles after a comet strike paleontology Answer the study of fossils that emerged after Steno's realization of fossils being the remains of living things extinction Answer permanent loss of a species (contradicts the great chain of being) volcanoes and deposits of sediment Answer how did species become extinct?