Exam 15: Darwin and Evolution

Once exposed to an antibiotic drug,bacteria will develop a resistance in order to survive and then pass the resistance onto subsequent generations.This is an example of Lamark's idea of the inheritance of acquired characteristics.

What is the main reason that the alternative explanations to evolution are not considered scientific?

Which of the following is NOT involved in natural selection?

Fossils like Archaeopteryx offer evidence linking

Lamarck's inheritance of acquired characteristics included the idea that

Which of the following is/are true about natural selection?

What is the scalanaturae?

Alfred Wallace is considered the Father of Zoogeography because of linking geography with the study of animals.

A population must have ______ for natural selection to occur.

The distribution of species can help provide information about all of the following except _________.

Cutting off the tails of mice over several generations should cause the tails of their offspring to become shorter,according to the ideas of which of these scientists?

Which of the following misconceptions about evolution can be refuted with the molecular evidence that is being collected through DNA analysis?

The theory of __________ proposed that a series of catastrophes or mass extinctions followed by repopulation could explain why species change over time.