Honors Ecology Ii - Review Sheet

HONORS EVOLUTION I - REVIEW SHEET

Level of Understanding Objectives Need Need Under- Help Review stand 1. __ Describe the historical context in which Darwin developed his concept of evolution. 2. __ Identify the ideas common in society and science prior to Darwin’s concept of evolution. 3. __ Explain how Darwin’s voyage provided him evidence that led to his conception of evolution by natural selection. 4. __ Explain how Darwin’s knowledge of selective breeding or artificial selection provided an analogy for his concept of natural selection. 5. __ Describe how Darwin’s knowledge of contemporary geologic ideas helped support his concept of evolution as a gradual process. 6. __ Describe how Darwin’s knowledge of limits on human population growth provided an analogy for his concept of natural selection. 7. __ Identify the principles of natural selection, describe each, and give numerous detailed examples of the process in action. 8. __ Describe Darwin’s life including his upbringing, education, and possible reasons for his delay in publication of his book On the Origin of Species. 9. __ Identify others who had concepts of evolutionary change including and describe how their ideas influenced Darwin. 10. __ Describe the work of Wallace and explain how natural selection helps to explain the geographical distribution of species. 11. __ Describe various forms of ‘resistance’ and explain how knowledge of natural selection helps to explain these events. 12. __ Describe the concept of sexual selection and use it to explain characteristics of organisms that can’t be explained through simple natural selection. 13. __ Describe and give examples of the process of coevolution. 14. __ Contrast divergent and convergent evolution using the terms homologous and analogous structures. 15. __ Briefly explain how knowledge from the fields of paleontology, anatomy and physiology, embryology, and molecular biology supports Darwin’s concept of evolution. 16. __ Contrast the everyday and scientific meaning of the term ‘theory’ and explain how use of the term is 17. __ Explain and give examples of how evolutionary adaptations of complex organism structures are inconsistent with intelligent design. 18. __ Identify and graphically represent the three common means that natural selection can change a population distribution. Vocabulary

__ Carl Linnaeus __ Georges Cuvier __ natural theology __ fixed species __ catastrophism __ Georges Buffon __ James Hutton __ Charles Lyell __ theory of uniformity __ industrial revolution __ geology __ Jean Baptist Lamarck __ Thomas Malthus __ human population __ struggle for existence __ artificial selection __ plant domestication __ dog domestication __ Charles Darwin __ Captain Fitzroy __ HMS Beagle voyage __ Galapagos islands __ Darwin’s finches __ natural selection __ Principle of variation __ Principle of overpopulation __ Principle of selection __ Emma Wedgewood __ Annie Darwin __ Thomas Huxley __ Alfred Wallace __ Malay Archipelago __ Wallace’s Line __ biogeography __ On the Origin of Species __ Peter & Rosemary Grant __ John Endler __ drug resistance __ antibiotic resistance __ pesticide resistance __ Sexual selection __ embryology __ molecular biology __ coevolution __ divergent evolution __ homologous structures __ convergent evolution __ analogous structures __ complexity __ adaptation __ fitness __ adaptive radiation __ theory __ evolution __ descent with modification __ fossil record __ vestigal structures ______