Evolutionary Patterns and Processes

Charles Darwin developed three patterns of biodiversity. When we talked about the Glyptodont and Armadillo, this dealt with which pattern?

• Species vary locally

• Species vary globally

• Species vary cosmically

• Species vary over time

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Although he was an influence on how Charles Darwin hypothesized evolution, this man incorrectly assumed that organisms could alter their traits and pass them on as “acquired characteristics.”

• James Hutton

• Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

• Charles Lyell

• Thomas Malthus

The process that allows organisms with variations most suited to their local environment to survive and leave more offspring .

• Fitness

• Artificial selection

• Natural Selection

• Adaptation

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First to propose that evolution occurs naturally when individuals best suited to the environment survive and reproduce

• Gregor Mendel

• Alfred Wagoner

• Louis Pasteur

• Charles Darwin

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Who suggested that if an organism stopped using a body part it would eventually become smaller and the smaller body part would be passed on to offspring?

• Charles Darwin

• Charles Lyell

• Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

• Thomas Malthus

Charles Darwin developed three patterns of biodiversity. When we talked about the ground-dwelling birds, this dealt with which pattern?

• Species vary locally

• Species vary globally

• Species vary cosmically

• Species vary over time

Charles Darwin developed three patterns of biodiversity. When we talked about the Galapagos Tortoises, this dealt with which pattern?

• Species vary locally

• Species vary globally

• Species vary cosmically

• Species vary over time

The main influence on Evolution is what?

• Variation of traits

• Environment

• Humans

• Time

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

• continual increases in population size.

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

• an unchanging local environment.

• the natural variations already present within the population of organisms.

Lamarck suggested that

• individual organisms could change during their lifetimes by selectively using or not using their various parts of their bodies.

• populations can change over time.

• individuals cannot pass their traits to their offspring.

• individuals are not driven by inner "need".