Evolutionary Patterns and Processes

What did Charles Darwin have a theroey about ?

• Sleep

• Animals

• Land

• Evolution

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Who traveled to the Galapagos islands and noted that species on the islands were similar to each other, but had small differences between them?

• Alfred Wallace

• Jean Baptiste Lamarck

• Charles Darwin

• Thomas Malthus

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Which naturalist suggested that species evolved by the "use it or lose it" idea?

• Charles Darwin

• Alfred Wallace

• Thomas Malthus

• Jean Baptiste Lamarck

Peter & Rosemary Grant

• observed evolution by natural selection actually taking place.

• studied Darwin’s finches on the Galápagos Islands.

• spent more than 30 years studying the same thing.

• all of the above all of the above

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Rapid evolutionary change

• Gradualism

• Genetic Equilibrium

• Convergent Evolution

• Punctuated Equilibrium

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Migration

• Gene Flow

• Natural Selection

• Genetic drift

• Speciation

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Choose which scientist corresponds best with the statement: 
survival of the fittest

• Darwin 

• Lamarck

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Choose which scientist corresponds best with the statement: 
acquired characteristics are inherited

• Darwin 

• Lamarck

Who would have stated "acquired traits" such as a giraffe needing a long neck so they stretch it over time

• Darwin

• Lamarck

Sent Darwin and essay with similar ideas as what Darwin proposed.

• Malthus

• Hutton

• Lyell

• Lamarck

• Wallace

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