Biology Review

Who is Charles Darwin ?

• the ship that many scientists and naturalist traveled upon when making many discoveries about different species

• a famous naturalist who described Natural Selection as the mechanism behind evolution. He traveled around Southeast Asia only making many observations.

• a famous naturalist who was the FIRST to describe Natural Selection as the mechanism behind evolution, from his observations in the Galapagos.

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Evolution was also called by Charles Darwin...

• The Law of Use and Disuse

• Phyletic Gradualism

• Descent with Modifications

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The Origin of Species is...

• A book written and published by Charles Darwin, describing natural selection and descent with modification

• A scientific theory explaining that parts of an organism's body that is used will become more developed, parts that are not used may become smaller and disappear

• a description of how the physical world behaves

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What is another word for Natural Selection?

• also known as phyletic gradualism

• also known as survival of the fittest

• also known as the Law of Use and Disuse

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What is a Scientific Theory?

• an inherited characteristic that increase an organisms chance of survival in its habitat

• a descriptive generalization of how the physical world behaves

• a well-substantiated explanation that incorporates facts, laws, inferences, and tested hypothesis all together

coming to a conclusion based on observations and prior knowledge

• predicting

• observing

• deductive reasoning

• inferring

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Brian is currently studying biology. He loves looking at the world around him and trying to find out why everything works the way it does in nature. He is always observing and inferring. He asks a ton of questions and tries to find the answers. What scientific attitude is Brian exemplifying?

• honesty

• skepticism

• bias

• curiosity

Connor and his lab partner take turns measuring their plants. It seems that the plants seem to grow about 2cm per week. Today, his partner reports that the plants grew 8cm since the last measurement. Connor thinks this seems unreasonable. Connor is....

• predicting

• showing bias

• skeptical

• open-minded

Patrick completes his research and realizes that he had been watering the control group with fertilizer when he wasn't supposed to. He really wants to finish this research and move on, but he decides he cannot publish a conclusion knowing that there is such an error. He will probably lose his grant money, but knows he needs to be honest. What quality is he showing?

• bias

• open-mindedness

• curiosity

• ethics

Things that could have affected the outcome of a lab experiment besides the variable are known as....

• experimental error

• qualitative observations

• a hypothesis

• a control group

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