Evolution is the process by which species adapt over time in response to their changing environment.
The Evolution of the Concept of Evolution:
Which of the following naturalist first
categorized all the living things that he encountered?
a) Charles Darwin
b) George Cuvier
c) Carlos Linnaeus
d) Aristotle
Who thought that all organisms fit into an orderly scheme, later
called the Scala Naturae or Ladder of Nature?
a) Charles Darwin
b) George Cuvier
c) Carlos Linnaeus
d) Aristotle
Explanation: the ladder stood, so to speak, upon non-living matter climbed rung by from fungi and moses to higher plants through primitive animals
The Scala Naturae was
considered to permanent and never changing; each organism has its place on the
ladder ordained by………….
a) Nature
b) God
c) Human
d) Idols
Fossil records indicate that eukaryotes appeared on planet Earth some………..years ago.
a) 1.5 to 2 billion
b) 1.5 to 2 million
c) 3.5 to 4.5 million
d) 3.5 to 4.5 billion
