Exam 18: Organic Evolution--The Theory and Its Supporting Evidence

The type of cell division in which resulting cells contain one chromosome from each pair is called ____________________.

The process in which changes occur in genes passed from one generation to another is called ____________________.

What statement best describes the concept of mutation?

The fossil record is biased because of selective preservation of organisms with ____________________ parts.

Describe allopatric speciation.

Briefly explain how the phylogeny of an extinct group can be determined.

What term describes islands that were once connected to a continent?

If in a cell, R is the dominant allele and represents blue flowers and r is the recessive allele and represents yellow flowers, an organism that inherits the pair Rr will have a(n)____________________ flower. (Indicate a color.)

What is phyletic gradualism?

What is the study of life as revealed by fossils?

All mutations are either harmful or beneficial.

Who proposed the modern biological classification scheme?

Briefly explain why critics did not readily accept the Darwin-Wallace theory of natural selection. What possibilities did they ignore?

The father of modern genetics is Alfred Wallace.

Lamarck's theory of inheritance of acquired characteristics was based on ____.

The science of genetics was developed based on experimental studies using fruit flies.

What is the most important aspect of Mendel's genetic studies?

Linnaeus devised his classification scheme to provide a ____.

Which of the following is a type of body fossil?