Famous People and Early Ideas
He boarded the HMS Beagle to eventually come up with the theory of natural selection?
Charles Darwin
Evolutionary Fitness = Physical Fitness
True/False?
False
What is genetic drift?
The change in frequency due to chance events.
Define Epigenetics
Heritable chemical modification to DNA molecule Often caused by environment.
She was a U.K. Fossil Collector who changed the way how scientists viewed extinction, speciation, and time.
Mary Anning
What location did Darwin use to base his research off of and what was the species?
The Galapagos Islands and he used the Galapagos Finches
Gregor Mendel
Define Competition
Interaction between living organisms where they fight for resources such as food, territory, or mates.
A french biologist who believed that microbes spontaneously generate. Also had a theory that was famously proven wrong.
Bonus: What was this theory?
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics
Darwin proposed this as a mechanism for evolution.
Natural Selection
What was the big idea for the Modern Synthesis Model?
Big Idea: Molecular mechanisms for evolution
Define Catastrophism
With each change in rock layer, a catastrophic event occurred.
This is the Father of Modern Taxonomy and responsible for its creation as well as nomenclature.
Carl Linnaeus
This man co-presented his work with Darwin at the Linnaean Society in London of 1858. Reached the same conclusions as Darwin.
Alfred Russell Wallace
Beyond the Modern Synthesis Model, what is the next level up?
The Integrated Synthesis Model
Define Natural Selection
More offspring born each generation than will survive and reproduce. Some survive and have more offspring than others. Best adapted individuals = most offspring. Survival and reproduction is based on phenotype.
These two people were convinced by the idea of Essentialism for species. What is it and who were these two people?
Essentialism is the idea that species have essence/true/type/perfect form. Plato and Aristotle.
These two people influenced Darwin's ideas.
Geologist Charles Lyell and economist Thomas Malthus
One of these is not in the Modern Synthesis model, it is...
A. Genetics
B. Neutral Theory
C. Population Genetics
D. Speciation
B.
It is apart of the Integrated Synthesis model.
Define Uniformitarianism
Same processes now as in the past.