Chapter 22 Review: Descent with Modification

Question 1

Groups of individuals that belong to the same species and live in the same area.

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population

Question 2

Naming system for organisms where scientific name includes a genus name and a species name.

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binomial nomenclature

Question 3

Largely developed paleontology. Supported catastrophism.

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Cuvier

Question 4

Humans select for breeding of specific useful traits varying from the natural variation.

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artificial selection

Question 5

Founder of taxonomy. Developed the two part naming system.

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Linnaeus

Question 6

Organisms features change through use and disuse and these changes are passed on to offspring.

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inheritance of acquired characteristics

Question 7

Evolution occurs by "natural selection". Author of Origin of Species

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Darwin

Question 8

Study of how and why plants and animals live where they do.

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biogeography

Question 9

Physical, functional or behavioral changes for better survival and reproduction.

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adaptation

Question 10

The idea that Earth's features are the result of large scale events such as earthquakes.

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catastrophism

Question 11

Believed in uniformitarianism - past geological process are occurring today.

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Cuvier

Question 12

Study of fossils

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paleontology

Question 13

Species that are native to and found only within a limited area.

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endemic species

Question 14

The continents once formed a large landmass. broke apart and moved.

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continental drift

Question 15

Anatomical homologies in embryos that are not visible in adult organisms.

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embyonic homologies

Question 16

Science of classification.

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taxonomy

Question 17

Organ that serves no useful function in an organism.

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vestigial organ

Question 18

Said evolution resulted from inheritance of acquired characteristics.

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Lamarck

Question 19

Inheritance of certain traits causes increased survival and reproduction.

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natural selection

Question 20

Body parts that share a common function, but not structure.

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analagous structure

Question 21

Similarities at the molecular level that species evolved from a common ancestor.

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molecular homologies

Question 22

Unrelated organisms independently evolve similarities in adapting to similar environments.

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convergent evolution

Question 23

Body parts commonly used develop more, parts that aren't used disappear over time.

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use and disuse

Question 24

Happens when traits are similar due to shared ancestry

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homology

Question 25

Similar structures that related species have inherited from a common ancestor

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homologous structures

Question 26

Geologic processes from the past can be explained by current geologic processes.

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uniformitarianism

Chapter 22 Review: Descent with Modification

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Chapter 22 Review: Descent with Modification

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