Development of Evolutionary Thought Quiz

Who is the father of taxonomy?

• Gregor Mendel

• Carolus Linnaeus

• Isaac Newton

Which scientist came up with the Theory of Use and Disuse?

• Jean Baptiste de Lamarck

• Georges Cuvier

• James Hutton

He was the promulgator of the first full-blown gradualist system of Earth history

• James Hutton

• Thomas Robert Malthus

• Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin is the father of biology

• True

• False

Mendel discovered the basic principles of heredity through experiments with pea plants

• True

• False

Lamarck's theory became accepted because

it had more evidence that supported it.

• False

• True

The theory of ______ mainly acknowledges the organism's ability to acquire another trait in order to survive its environment and can be passed to its offspring.

• speciation

• acquired traits

• use and disuse

Known for the population growth philosophies

outlined in his 1798 book "An Essay on the Principle of Population."

• Thomas Robert Malthus

• Georges Cuvier

• Charles Lyell

He is regarded as the scientific founder of paleontology and made comparative anatomy a research discipline.

• Georges Cuvier

• Charles Darwin

• Carolus Linnaeus

He is known as the father of heredity

• Gregor Mendel

• Jean Baptiste de Lamarck

• George Cuvier