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6. What author does this theory belong to? 'The differential reproduction and survival of individuals carrying alternative trails'

  • Etienne Geoffroy Saint Hilaire
  • Charles Darwin
  • Georges Cuvier
  • Georges Buffon
  • Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

7. What 18th century development enabled the accurate mapping of the world?

  • Robert Fitzroy's founding of the Meteorological Service
  • The voyages of Captain James cook
  • John Harrison's clock
  • Alfred Wegener's theory of continental drift

8. Carolus Linnaeus is considered the father of taxonomy. He devised the hierarchical and binomial system of naming organisms still in use today. For modern humans, which is the correct order of Domain; Kingdom; Phylum; Class; Order; Family; Genus;Speci

  • Eukarya; Animalia; Chordata; Mammalia; Primates; Hominidae; Homo; sapiens
  • Eukarya; Mammalia; Primates; Animalia; Chordata; Homo; sapiens; Hominidae;
  • Animalia; Chordata; Eukarya; Mammalia; Hominidae; Homo; sapiens
  • Animalia;Chordata; Primates;Hominidae Mammalia; Homo; sapiens

9. Is Competition an abiotic or a biotic factor in an ecosystem?

  • biotic
  • abiotic

10. Augustine de Candolle made the first distinction between the two great sub-disciplines of Biogeography: 1) The long (geological) timescales operating at continual-global spatial scales. Often concerned with larger units of biological classification

  • Historical
  • Ecological

11. What author does this theory belong to? 'Noted faunistic differences and similarities between regions of similar climate'

  • eorges Buffon
  • Charles Darwin
  • Georges Cuvier
  • Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
  • Etienne Geoffroy Saint Hilaire

12. 2) The short (seasonal) timescales operating at habitat, local or intracontinental that affect the geographic distribution of living plants and animals is called (????) biogeography

  • Ecological
  • Historical

13. What author does this theory belong to? 'Large fossil mammals extinct due a catastrophic event'

  • Charles Darwin
  • Etienne Geoffroy Saint Hilaire
  • Georges Cuvier
  • Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
  • Georges Buffon

14. Is pH an abiotic or a biotic factor in an ecosystem?

  • Abiotic
  • Biotic

15. What author does this theory belong to? 'Organisms have an 'inherent tendency' to improve'

  • Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
  • Georges Buffon
  • Charles Darwin
  • Georges Cuvier
  • Etienne Geoffroy Saint Hilaire

16. What author does this theory belong to? 'Organs in different taxa may be homologous;same construction; different function (e.g. hand and fin).'

  • Georges Cuvier
  • Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
  • Georges Buffon
  • Etienne Geoffroy Saint Hilaire
  • Charles Darwin