Darwin's Evolutionary Journey: From Galapagos to Origin of Species

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2. JEOPARDY! Darwin History of Evolutionary Thought Origin of Life Fossil Records Process of Evolution Population Genetics 100 100 100 100 100 100 200 200 200 200 200 200 300 300 300 300 300 300 400 400 400 400 400 400 500 500 500 500 500 500

3. Darwin collected many organisms from these volcanic islands off the coast of South America

4. The Galapagos Is.

5. Choose one answer: Darwin noted that fossils in South America more closely resembled (a) fossils from the same era in Europe or (b) fossils of other organisms now living in South America

6. (b)

7. What is the title and publication date of Darwin’s most significant publication?

8. The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, 1859

9. Darwin acquired his degree in the field of _____?

10. botany

11. Name the two most widely accepted ideas that Darwin had to overcome in order to promote his ideas about natural selection.

12. (1) The Earth was ~ 6000 years old(2) Life was fixed and unchanging.

13. Who developed a nearly identical theory of natural selection around the same time as Darwin?

14. Wallace 1726-1797

15. Who purported that populations have the potential to grow exponentially due to the high reproductive potential of all organisms?

16. Malthus, 1766-1834

17. Who believed in the concept of acquired inheritance, that the use of a trait allows that trait to develop over time and be passed on to one’s offspring?

18. Lamarck, 1745-1828

19. Who created the binomial classification system for organisms that is still in use today?

20. Linnaeus 1707-1778

21. Name two reasons the Origin of the Species succeeded in changing the direction of scientific thought when other proposals by other men had failed?

22. - Logical step-wise presentation-examples With both domesticated animals and plants-easily observable-lots of detailed examples

23. Which taxonomic group listed is the oldest? Fungi, bacteria, protists

24. bacteria

25. Name one of the energy sources thought to drive the anabolic reactions of the first molecule of life?

26. Lightening or UV

27. What molecule was most likely the first hereditary material?

28. RNA

29. According to the most recent hypothesis, what would the first organic monomers have been?

30. Amino acids or nucleotides

31. Besides the reducing atmosphere hypothesis, name two other ways or places in which the first organic molecules are speculated to have formed?

32. Deep sea vents, meteoritesfrom space

33. Approximately how old I the Earth according to geologic dating?

34. 4.5 billion years old

35. What are protobionts?

36. Droplets of polymers packaged in a membrane where the internal and external environments are different

37. Describe two traits of the plant earth during it first 1 billion years?

38. No life, earth was bombarded by meteors, all water was in vapor form, very hot surface, dramatic storms and a reducing atmosphere

39. Describe two traits of the Earth between 3.5-2.0 bya?

40. Prokaryotic life; oxygen began to accumulate due to photosynthesis by cyanobacteria; there were large oceans are lakes; rocks with iron began to oxidize; prokaryotes began cell respiration

41. Describe a circumstance in which organic monomers may have formed polymers without the use of enzymes and cellular components

42. On hot clay or rocks rain on lava beds sea droplets on lava, deep at sea vents, or places on the ocean floor with heat and pressure.

43. According to the biological species concept, what is a species?

44. A group of organisms that can interbreed to produce live, fertile offspring

45. Organism will evolve into better, stronger, more intelligent or more complex organisms over time. True or False?

46. False

47. Natural selection occurs at what level? The individual, population, community, ecosystem

48. population

49. What do we call the process that reslts in the evolution of a new taxonomic group?

50. macroevolution