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Study Guide 10.1

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18 questions
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What did Linnaeus do to help develop evolutionary theory?

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What did Buffon do to help develop evolutionary theory?

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What did E. Darwin do to help develop evolutionary theory?

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What did Lamarck do to help develop evolutionary theory?

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What two conditions must be true for a group of animals to be considered the same species?

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Lamarck’s ideas of evolution are known as the inheritance of acquired characteristics. What was incorrect about his theory of how organisms evolve?

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In the 1700s, many people believed that species were fixed and did not change. How did plant hybridization—a type of crossing that could be observed in experiments—help change this view?

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Write a description of catastrophism.

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Write a description of gradualism.

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Write a description of uniformitarianism.

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What word refers to traces of an organism that existed in the past?

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What is the process of biological change by which descendants come to differ from their ancestors?

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Events such as volcanoes, floods, and earthquakes are the basis of what geologic theory?

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What geologic theory can be summarized by the phrase “the present is the key to the past”?

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Charles Darwin’s poetic grandfather.

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Thought that a giraffe’s long neck evolved from reaching high in trees

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Grouped living organisms into categories based on what they looked like.

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Wrote Historie Naturelle (Natural History) in 1749