Evo Bio Quiz 1&2

• Georges Cuvier gave us one of the first forms of evidence for evolution, by documenting fossils
• Lamarck proposed inheritance of acquired characteristics as a mechanism for evolution
• Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace documented the concept of evolution by natural selection.
• Orthogenesis proposes that a blueprint for an organism’s final state is predetermined and that all organisms may share the same information that includes that blueprint
• The modern synthesis includes:

  1. Natural selection
  2. paleontology
  3. mutations and genetics
• Parsimony is the method of inferring phylogenies relies completely on the idea that the simplest solution is probably correct
• Plesiomorphy is a character that would be found on an ancestor of a clade
• Charles Lyell, said the present is the key to the past and that small changes will build up over time, Uniformitarianism
• Monophyletic is the type of grouping is used by phylogenies to define classification of organisms
• Outgroup is the key to determining the orientation of a cladogram and determining a common ancestor