BSC1005 –General Education Biology: Evolution

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Darwin Evolution and Speciation

Here is the video link: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xsxubk

OR http://www.documentarytube.com/videos/charles-darwin-and-the-tree-of-life

Darwin and the Tree of Life, Questions

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Question

1. Who was Charles Darwin?

2. How can we define a species?

3. True/False Darwin noticed large differences between the turtles of various islands in the Galapagos.

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4. Where are many of Darwin’s collections located?

5. What does it mean to say that a species is “fixed”?

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6. True/False Species produce more young than it is possible for their environment to support.

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7. What does the statement “survival of the fittest” mean?

8. What did Darwin call the process of the environment selecting for only the fittest offspring to survive?

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9. Did Darwin form his theory on his own? Who did he look towards for support?

10. Why was Darwin interested in domesticated dogs?

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11. All domesticated dogs are descendants from what ancestor?

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12. How long has the environment (nature) been selecting between species?

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13. Why didn’t Darwin publish his theory earlier?

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14. Who was Alfred Wallace?

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15. Humans are descendants of what group of species?

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16. True/False Darwin’s theory stated that life evolved from simple organisms to complex organisms.

17. What problems arose with Darwin’s theory of evolution?

18. What is a fossil?

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19. Why are rocks in layers?

20. Which layer of rock would be the most recent, the top or the bottom?

21. How can you tell how old a fossil is?

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22. What is an intermediate fossil?

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23. Why is Archeopteryx important?

24. True/False Birds have evolved from reptiles.

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25. How old did the Victorian geologists think the Earth was?

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26. What did Marie Curie discover?

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27. True/False Continents are not able to move around the Earth’s surface.

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28. How do very simple organisms see?

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29. What did Francis Crick and James Watson discover?

30. True/False A gene taken from one organism will not function if inserted into another organism.

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31. True/False All life on Earth is related.

32. Where did life begin?

33. True/False The first organisms were made of multiple cells.

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34. True/False DNA is found in plants, animal, bacteria

35. True/ False Genes from Jellyfish can be transfer to mice

36. How can you prove parenthood or that two distinct animal are related?

37. What is confirmed by modern Genetics?

38. What happened 65 million years ago? How is it related to us?

39. Where do amphibians lay their eggs?

40. Birds are descendants of _______________

41. What is the advantage of mammals compare to other groups of animal existing before?

42. What is DNA confirming?

43. What was a crucial step toward humanity?

44. True/False Species never change

45. True/False We have dominion over nature

46. What does our understanding of evolution allow us to do?