REVIEW SHEET - EVOLUTION

DIRECTIONS:

Complete the following questions in preparation for our opportunity covering evolution.

  1. Describe Lamark’s evolutionary theory

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  2. Describe Darwin’s evolutionary theory

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  3. How are Darwin and Lamark similar?

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  4. How are Darwin and Lamark different?

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  5. What does fitness mean?

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  6. Distinguish between artificial and natural selection.

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  7. How does survival of the fittest effect organisms that are commonly eaten by predators?

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  8. How does survival of the fittest effect organisms that are in a geographical area where changes in the climate are occurring.

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  9. How does fossil evidence support the theory of evolution?

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  10. Where is the fossil record weak in supporting evolution?

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  11. What is comparative anatomy? Describe an example that was not discussed in class.

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  12. What is comparative physiology?

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  13. Does recent information about DNA support the theory of evolution?

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  14. Fill in the following table of significant experiments and theories.

NAME

EXPERIMENT

CONTRIBUTION

Jars of meat, one covered with mesh one uncovered. Found maggots on the uncovered meat, not on the mesh covered

JOHN NEEDHAM – 1700’S

Thought he had provided evidence for abiogenesis (spontaneous generation)

Evidence against abiogenesis. Gave Pasteur the idea for his experiment.

LOUIS PASTEUR – LATE – 1700’S

Completely disproved the theories of abiogenesis.

STANLEY MILLER - 1953

Early theory of evolution called the inheritance of aquired characteristics

CHARLES DARWIN