Scientists - Evolution

Said that organisms acquired traits throughout their lifetime and passed those traits to those offspring. Ex: giraffes grew longer necks to reach food and then that was passed to the next generation of giraffes

• Jean Baptiste Lemarck

• Thomas Malthus

• Charles Darwin

• Aristotle

The name of the scientist who published his findings in the Origin of Species. Published the idea of natural selection in this paper claiming this was responsible for the diversity of life

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Also helped prove the idea of natural selection, but receives less credit now even tho he was just as big of a deal back in the day!

• Charles Darwin

• Charles Lyell

• Alfred Russel Wallace

• Aristotle

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Said that a growing population would lead to competition for resources. He called this a struggle for survival

• Alfred Russel Wallace

• Charles Lyell

• Thomas Malthus

• Charles Darwin

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Geologist that stated that the changing of the Earth was caused over long periods of time due to natural geological forces

• Charles Lyell

• Charles Darwin

• Thomas Malthus

• Aristotle

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States that all living things have evolved gradually over time to form new organisms

• Chemical evolution

• Organic evolution

• Thermodynamic evolution

• Natural selection

Answer explanation

Organic evolution says living organisms change over time. Chemical evolution is the idea that living things formed from nonliving chemicals

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Organs that once had a function, but because of natural selection, now have no purpose

• Modified Organs

• Homologous Organs

• Vestigial Organs

• Analogous Organs

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Scientists describe the first cells on Earth as

• Heterotrophic

• Prokaryotic

• Autotrophic

• Anaerobic

The endosymbiotic theory states that eukaryotic cells evolved by engulfing mitochondrion and chloroplasts, and that the mitochondria and chloroplast were once their own organisms. What evidence supports this theory?

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Chloroplasts and mitochondrion each have their own set of DNA, which is different from the DNA found in the nucleus! So cool

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The last cells on Earth to evolve were

• Aerobic

• Photosynthetic

• Heterotrophic

• Autotrophs

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