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Development of Evolutionary Theories

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who is considered as the father of evolution?

a)

Aristotle

b)

Carolous Linnaeus

c)

Charles Darwin

d)

Robert Koch

2.

What work of Aristotle focuses on the history and descriptions of animals?

a)

A. De Generatione Animalium

b)

Historia Animalium

c)

Naturalis Historia

d)

Muqaddimah

3.

Which of the following is a work by a Basran scholar that contained early ideas regarding what would eventually be known as natural selection?

a)

Considérations sur les Corps Organisées

b)

Kitab al-Hayawan

c)

Naturalis Historia

d)

Muqaddimah

4.

Who among the following Greek philosophers was a student of Plato and is known as one of the earliest naturalists?

 

a)

Aristotle

b)

Pliny the Elder

c)

Theophastus

d)

Zeno

5.

Which among the views about the natural world did not come from St. Thomas Aquinas?

a)

Creation myths should not be taken literally, and instead, be reconciled with science.

b)

Natural events or phenomena occur with an ultimate purpose or direction.

c)

The development or increase in complexity of organisms occurs at random.

d)

There is no disconnect between the creation myth and the observations made by natural philosophers.

6.

Who published the Kitab al-Hayawan, which is also known as the Book of the Animals?

a)

Al Jahiz

b)

Aristotle

c)

Theophrastus

d)

Zeno

7.

Which of the following texts proposed the possible origin of humans from monkeys?

a)

De Generatione Animalium

b)

De Generatione Humanis

c)

Kitab al-Hayawan

d)

Muqaddimah

8.

Which scientist proposed the idea of inheritance of acquired characteristics?

a)

Alfred Russel Wallace

b)

Charles Darwin

c)

Gregor Mendel

d)

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

9.

What is the book that talks about comprehensive work that deals with living organisms and the universe?

a)

Considérations sur les Corps Organisée

b)

De Partibus Animalium

c)

Naturalis Historia

d)

Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation

10.

Who was one of Aristotle’s successors which made an extensive work on plants and created Historia Plantarum?

a)

Plato

b)

Pliny the Elder

c)

Theophrastus

d)

Zeno

11.

Which of the following are likely claims of the text about Lamarck’s work?

a)

All physical changes that organisms acquired during their adulthood cannot be inherited by the offspring.

b)

Simple organisms arise out of nothing or from nonliving matter.

c)

The elongation of a giraffe’s neck during its lifetime cannot be transmitted to the offspring.

d)

The traits of organisms have a basis in their cellular information.

12.

Which among the following texts would be the best if you want to study the reproduction of fish and the development of how science understands the topic?

a)

Considérations sur les Corps Organisées

b)

De Generatione Animalium

c)

Historia Plantarum

d)

Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation

13.

Which is not an example of Lamarck’s Law of use and disuse?

a)

developed and strong biceps of a blacksmith

b)

elongated limbless body of the snake

c)

lengthening of the neck of Giraffe

d)

white colored bugs

14.

Who does not contributed ideas regarding the process of change that occurs in living organisms?

a)

Aristotle

b)

Charles Bonnet

c)

Comte de Button

d)

Robert Chambers

15.

What period has numerous scholars that worked on concepts related to the origin of life and the diversity of species?

A. ancient time

B. medieval

C. middle ages

D. pre – cambrian

a)

ancient time

b)

medieval

c)

middle ages

d)

pre - cambrian

16.

Who is the author of the book, Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation?

a)

Aristotle

b)

Charles Bonnet

c)

Comfe de Buffon

d)

Robert Chambers

17.

Who is the author of the book, Historia Animalium?

a)

Aristotle

b)

Charles Bonnet

c)

Comte de Buffon

d)

Robert Chambers

18.

Who is the author of the book, Considérations sur les Corps Organisée?

a)

Aristotle

b)

Charles Bonnet

c)

Comte de Boffun

d)

Robert Chambers

19.

Who is the author of the book, Natural; History of Animals?

a)

Aristotle

b)

Charles Bonnet

c)

Comte de Boffun

d)

Robert Chambers

20.

Who is the author of the book, De Generatione Animalium?

a)

Aristotle

b)

Charles Bonnet

c)

Comte De Buffon

d)

Robert Chamber