Biology Chapter 13 Final Exam course Bio-103 greek philosopher who believed species to be perfect and permanent stated that all species were designed by a supreme creator research of Galapagos finches documents natural selection proposed that acquired characteristics may be inherited his book about gradual geological change influenced Darwin asserted that populations grow faster than resources wrote The Origin of Species explaining "descent with modification" conceived a theory of evolution almost identical to Dawrin's a group of individuals of the same species what natural selection acts on what actually evolves all the alleles in all the individuals in the population change in relative frequencies of alleles in the gene pool causes of variation portion of variation relevant to natural selection produces new alleles where most mutations occur mutations that affect population's variability most mutations important source of helpful variation organisms in which mutation alone generate most variation generates most new gene combinations in animals and plants sexual processes that generate variation

1. greek philosopher who believed species to be perfect and permanent

Aristotle

2. stated that all species were designed by a supreme creator

Book of Genesis

3. research of Galapagos finches documents natural selection

Peter and Rosemary Grant

4. proposed that acquired characteristics may be inherited

Jean Baptiste Lamarck

5. his book about gradual geological change influenced Darwin

Charles Lyell

6. asserted that populations grow faster than resources

Thomas Malthus

7. wrote The Origin of Species explaining "descent with modification"

Charles Darwin

8. conceived a theory of evolution almost identical to Dawrin's

Alfred Russell Wallace

9. a group of individuals of the same species

population

10. what natural selection acts on

individual

11. what actually evolves

population

12. all the alleles in all the individuals in the population

gene pool

13. change in relative frequencies of alleles in the gene pool

microevolution

14. causes of variation

mutation, sexual reproduction

15. portion of variation relevant to natural selection

genetic

16. produces new alleles

mutation

17. where most mutations occur

body (somatic) cells

18. mutations that affect population's variability

mutations in gametes

19. most mutations

harmful

20. important source of helpful variation

duplication mutation

21. organisms in which mutation alone generate most variation

prokaryotes

22. generates most new gene combinations in animals and plants

sexual reproduction

23. sexual processes that generate variation

crossing over, independent assortment, random fertilization