BIO 111: FOUNDATIONS OF BIOLOGY

LECTURE 10: "Darwin's Observations"

Assumed Knowledge:

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Study Questions for Chapter 22:

• How are evolution and genetics related?
• What where the three things Darwin did in Origin of Species?
• What is "uniformitarianism" and how was it important to the development of Darwin's ideas?
• What are homologous structures?  What correlation occurs with the environment?
• What are analogous structure?  What correlation occurs with the environment?
• What are convergent communities?
• What are vestigial structures?  Why were they so important to Darwin, as a scientist constructing hypotheses of causality?
• What types of organisms dominate isolated island archipelagos? (birds? mammals?  etc.). What does this suggest about where they came from?