Ursinus College Bio 101 Unit 1
Reasons for Darwin's Success - CORRECT ANSWER -Encouraged to ride and hunt --> provided him with essential skills for South America exploration Father=Doctor Grandfather=Erasmus Automatic entree into elite society (upper class birth) Got into Cambridge --> met Henslow and learned about Herschel John Henslow - CORRECT ANSWER -Professor at Cambridge introduced Darwin to Sedgwick Encouraged Darwin to read Herschel's discourse Adam Sedgwick - CORRECT ANSWER -Gave Darwin 1st training in geology during 2- week excursion in Wales Professor at Cambridge
counterargument to natural selection: evolution is by the hand of God
John Herschel - CORRECT ANSWER -Fundamental Laws H-D Method published Discourse on the study of Natural Philosophy Shaped Darwin's approach to science Robert Fitzroy - CORRECT ANSWER -Commander of The Beagle Frances Bacon - CORRECT ANSWER -Advocated Induction Emphasized direct observation and experimentation William Paley - CORRECT ANSWER -counterargument about evolution Has to be a designer to sculpt molecules together in the perfect form to make species Jean Baptiste Lamarck - CORRECT ANSWER -Fully developed theory of evolution -law driven processes
- needs of an organism in a particular environment caused it to use more of some organs
- changes in organs are passed to offspring
than other organs -->strengthened some organs while the ones not in use faded
Georges Cuvier - CORRECT ANSWER -ridiculed Lamarck counterargument to transmutation --> all of an animals parts function together, it would die if one organ didn't work properly 1 / 2
Induction Theory - CORRECT ANSWER -begin with specific observations and measures, begin to detect patterns and regularities, formulate some tentative hypotheses that we can explore, and finally end up developing some general conclusions or theories Deduction Theory - CORRECT ANSWER -begin with thinking up a theory about our topic of interest. We then narrow that down into more specific hypotheses that we can test. We narrow down even further when we collect observations to address the hypotheses Chilean Earthquake - CORRECT ANSWER --crust moved -land raised -Andes Mountains will result -Natural selection
Blue-Footed Booby - CORRECT ANSWER -Observations:
saw this dive into water Asked "is diving into water something all _____ do?" Not all seabirds dive Original 3 Grand Facts - CORRECT ANSWER --Species are real and immutable, each created individually by God -Species can be ordered into natural groups, revealing God's ration plan of creation -Members of each species are equipped with exactly the features they need to survive, revealing God's power and beneficence Population - CORRECT ANSWER -Members of the same species that live in the same place and interbreed with each other Variety - CORRECT ANSWER -populations that belong to the same species but which live in different places and look sufficiently different Species - CORRECT ANSWER -Collection of individuals that look sufficiently like each other and diff from others to know that it originated from a single creation event Families - CORRECT ANSWER -small groups of similar species orders - CORRECT ANSWER -larger than a family of somewhat similar species classes - CORRECT ANSWER -larger groups of sightly similar species.Larmark's opinion? - CORRECT ANSWER -Evolution would happen in individual generations. (not over long period of time) What mistake did Darwin make when recording finch data? - CORRECT ANSWER - Didn't record what island they each came from.theory - CORRECT ANSWER -leads to predictions that have been tested
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