Biology 1m03 stuvia Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Interpret this statement: Extinct fossil species are typically succeeded by similar living species - Answer Extinct and living forms represent ancestors and descendants Which is an example of developmental homology a) gene content b) similar organismal structures c)vestigial traits d) similar embryonic traits - Answer d) Which is not one of Darwin's 4 Postulates: a) Individuals in a population vary in their traits b) These differences are not heritable; they are not passed onto offs...

is culture and cumulative cultural change common in other animals? - Answer culture is common in other animals but cumulative cultural change is rare what is culture? - Answer the shared information acquired through social learning guest speaker Taru Vasanthan conducted her research on what species? - Answer tardigrades would organisms in an aphotic zone of the ocean use photosynthesis? - Answer the organisms would not use photosynthesis why may have bipedalism evolved in hominins? -...

organism - Answer an entity made up of one or more cells that; a) requires energy to live and reproduce, b) made up of membrane bound cells, c) contains hereditary/genetic information contained in genes, d) replicates, e) is a product and continuation of evolution cell theory - Answer all organisms are made up of cells and all cells come from pre-existing cells evolution - Answer the change in characteristics of a population over time natural selection - Answer one of the driving forces...