AP_Unit 8_ Evolution_ EVOLUTIONARY SCIENTISTS

Which scientist sailed on the HMS Beagle?

• Darwin

• Linnaeus

• Lamarck

• Hutton

Which scientist contributed ideas about natural selection and survival of the fittest?

• Linnaeus

• Margulis

• Darwin

• Mendel

Which scientist created the modern classification system?

• Lamarck

• Darwin

• Linnaeus

• Miller and Urey

Which scientist contributed ideas about carrying capacity and populations?

• Malthus

• Mendel

• Robert Hooke

• Schleiden

Which scientist coined the term Uniformitarianism (same process used over millions of years)?

• Malthus

• Hardy-Weinberg

• Darwin

• Lyell

Which scientist explained how Earth's first organic molecules formed?

• Hutton

• Miller and Lyell

• Miller and Urey

• St. Nicholas

Which scientist came up with the levels of classification: Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species

• Linnaeus

• Darwin

• Mendel

• Watson and Crick

Which of the following is Thomas Malthus’ contribution to Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution?

• The earth is of a very old age proven by the number of rock layers.

• The earth’s geography has been shaped by slow processes

• Organisms mutate new parts as they need them.

• Populations tend to overpopulate and compete.

In the 1800s Jean-Baptiste Lamarck offered a hypothesis about evolution called the inheritance of acquired characteristics. Which of the following is an example of how Lamarck thought animals evolved?

• Fish mutated the genes necessary to develop lungs and were able to eventually survive on land.

• Giraffes once had short necks and stretched them reaching for leaves on trees, later passing the longer neck trait to their offspring.

• Dark moths, once outnumbered by light moths, began to survive longer and reproduce more after the industrial revolution turned the trees black.

• The earth has been here so long that animals have had plenty of time to adapt to their environment through natural selection.

Charles Lyell wrote a book called the Principles of Geology which Charles Darwin read during his famous voyage around the world. Lyell’s book contributed to Darwin’s Theory of Evolution by convincing Darwin that

• natural selection was responsible for the acquisition of new traits within a population when there was competition between species.

• giraffes had short necks until they stretched them while reaching for the higher leaves on trees and then passed these traits to their offspring.

• the earth was old and formed by slow-acting processes which Darwin applied to the evolution of living things.

• homologous structures, the fossil record, and vestigial structures were the best evidence for the evolution of species.