Chapter 16 Biology Evolution

Darwin noticed that many organisms seemed well suited to.....

• Surviving in the environments that they lived
• only weak survived
• all survived
• all of the above

Darwin observed in finches and tortoises in the Galapagos, he wondered.....

• if species living on different islands had once been members of the same species
• were never the same specie
• struggled to survive
• all of the above

Supported Darwin's observation of local variations among tortoises in the Galapagos Islands?

• adaptation

• mutations

• genetic drift

• all of the above

Who said past geological events must be explained in terms of processes observable today

• Charles Lyell emphasized that

• lamarck

• darwin

• all of the above

The actions of organisms as they use or fail to use body structures.

• Lamarck's ideas about evolution include the concept that differences among the traits of organisms arise as a result of

• Charles Darwins beliefs

• Thomas malthus beliefs

• all of the above

Suggested without certain checks on population size, there would soon be insufficient food for the growing human population.

• Thomas Malthus
• Lyell
• Lamarck
• Darwin

When a dairy farmer chooses to breed the cows that give the most milk in a heard.

• artificial selection

• Random mating

• self mating

• all of the above

Common descent help explains why

• birds and reptiles share a number of inherited characteristics.

• birds and jellyfish have some similarities

• random assortment occurs

• all of the above

Gregor Mendel did not influence...

• Charles Darwin

• Thomas Malthus

• Lamarck

• Charles Lyell

Darwin used to support his theory.

• Fossils
• evolution
• books
• article