Homology and Evolution Quiz

<p>James Hutton and Charles Lyell</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Origin of Species</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The great diversity of organisms</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Internal sensory detection in animals</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Lyell</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Species evolve through use and disuse of body parts and the inheritance of acquired characteristics</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Fossils resembled living species from the same region, and living species resembled other species from nearby regions</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Species from South America had colonized the Galápagos and speciated on the islands</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Homology</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>anatomical resemblances that represent variations on a structural theme present in a common ancestor.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Convergent evolution</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Extinction of species, origin of new groups, and changes within groups over time</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An essay on natural selection</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A process where individuals with favorable traits are more likely to survive and reproduce</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>In June 1858</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A similar process occurs in nature</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Members of a population often vary in their inherited traits</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Individuals with certain heritable traits survive and reproduce at a higher rate than other individuals</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Direct observations, homology, the fossil record, and biogeography</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Change in a population's food source resulting in evolution</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Accounts for many observations and explains and integrates a great variety of phenomena</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Stand up to continual testing by experimentation and observation</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Integrates diverse areas of biological study and stimulates many new research questions</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A scientific test, often carried out under controlled conditions</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It can be falsified, meaning that it can (and should) be examined with decisive experiments</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Testable and falsifiable</p> Signup and view all the answers