Modern Biology

Jean Baptiste de Lamarck’s full Theory

• The law of use and disuse and the inheritance of acquired characteristics

• The Law of Natural Selection and the Law of use and disuse

• The Inheritance of acquired traits and the theory of natural selection

• The Theory of Natural Selection

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The Law of use and disuse

which of the following is not true an

about it?

• Believed by Jean Baptiste

• More you use it, the weaker it is

• Less you use it, the weaker it is

Who disproved Lamarck’s Theory?

• August Weismann

• Charles Darwin

• Jean Baptiste

• Esther and Joshua Lederberg

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Where did Darwin travel where he learned about Evolution?

• The Galápagos Islands

• The Caribbean

• Western Europe

• North America

How many generations did Augustus Weismann cut off the tails of mice for?

• 22

• 10

• 13

• 20

• 12

What animal did Darwin study on the Galápagos Islands?

• Finches

• Frogs

• Zebra Fish

• Humans

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What was Darwin’s theory called?

• Natural Selection

• The Beagle

• The Inheritance of Acquired Traits

• Gradualism

• Punctuated Equilibrium

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What does evolution mean?

• To change something
• To change and adapt over time
• To lose some original features
• To improve ssomething over time

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What is survival of the fittest?

• It is where the fittest die out and therefore reproduce and pass on their genes
• It is where the fittest die out and therefore can't reproduce and pass on their genes
• It is where the fittest don't die out and therefore can't reproduce and pass on their genes
• It is where the fittest don't die out and therefore reproduce and pass on their genes

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What is natural selection?

• Your natural fate is decided from birth
• Nature actively chooses who surivives
• Those best suited to demands of environment surivie
• The weakest of a species surivie

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