WorksheetsDevelopment of Evolutionary Theories
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 11mins
Who is considered as the father of evolution?
Aristotle
Carolous Linnaeus
Charles Darwin
Robert Koch
What work of Aristotle focuses on the history and descriptions of animals?
A. De Generatione Animalium
Historia Animalium
Naturalis Historia
Muqaddimah
Which of the following is a work by a Basran scholar that contained early ideas regarding what would eventually be known as natural selection?
Considérations sur les Corps Organisées
Kitab al-Hayawan
Naturalis Historia
Muqaddimah
Who among the following Greek philosophers was a student of Plato and is known as one of the earliest naturalists?
Aristotle
Pliny the Elder
Theophastus
Zeno
Which among the views about the natural world did not come from St. Thomas Aquinas?
Creation myths should not be taken literally, and instead, be reconciled with science.
Natural events or phenomena occur with an ultimate purpose or direction.
The development or increase in complexity of organisms occurs at random.
There is no disconnect between the creation myth and the observations made by natural philosophers.
Who published the Kitab al-Hayawan, which is also known as the Book of the Animals?
Al Jahiz
Aristotle
Theophrastus
Zeno
Which of the following texts proposed the possible origin of humans from monkeys?
De Generatione Animalium
De Generatione Humanis
Kitab al-Hayawan
Muqaddimah
Which scientist proposed the idea of inheritance of acquired characteristics?
Alfred Russel Wallace
Charles Darwin
Gregor Mendel
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
What is the book that talks about comprehensive work that deals with living organisms and the universe?
Considérations sur les Corps Organisée
De Partibus Animalium
Naturalis Historia
Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation
Who was one of Aristotle’s successors which made an extensive work on plants and created Historia Plantarum?
Plato
Pliny the Elder
Theophrastus
Zeno
Which of the following are likely claims of the text about Lamarck’s work?
All physical changes that organisms acquired during their adulthood cannot be inherited by the offspring.
Simple organisms arise out of nothing or from nonliving matter.
The elongation of a giraffe’s neck during its lifetime cannot be transmitted to the offspring.
The traits of organisms have a basis in their cellular information.
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?
Considérations sur les Corps Organisées
De Generatione Animalium
Historia Plantarum
Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation
Which is not an example of Lamarck’s Law of use and disuse?
developed and strong biceps of a blacksmith
elongated limbless body of the snake
lengthening of the neck of Giraffe
white colored bugs
Who does not contributed ideas regarding the process of change that occurs in living organisms?
Aristotle
Charles Bonnet
Comte de Button
Robert Chambers
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
ancient time
medieval
middle ages
pre - cambrian
Who is the author of the book, Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation?
Aristotle
Charles Bonnet
Comfe de Buffon
Robert Chambers
Who is the author of the book, Historia Animalium?
Aristotle
Charles Bonnet
Comte de Buffon
Robert Chambers
Who is the author of the book, Considérations sur les Corps Organisée?
Aristotle
Charles Bonnet
Comte de Boffun
Robert Chambers
Who is the author of the book, Natural; History of Animals?
Aristotle
Charles Bonnet
Comte de Boffun
Robert Chambers
Who is the author of the book, De Generatione Animalium?
Aristotle
Charles Bonnet
Comte De Buffon
Robert Chamber
