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Direction: You must Answer no.6 to no. 9. Multiple Choice only. No need to explain each answer. Provide a correct letter as correct answer to each question. Zoom in the picture in order to see it clearly. Thank you in advance.
Transcribed Image Text:6. Catastrophism, meaning the regular occurrence of geological or meteorological disturbances
(catastrophes), was Cuvier's attempt to explain the existence of
a. Evolution
c. Uniformitarianism
e. Natural selection
b. The fossil record
d. The origin of new species
7. Which of the following represents an idea that Darwin learned from the writings of Thomas Malthus?
a. Technological innovation in agricultural practices will permit exponential growth of the human
population into the foreseeable future.
b. Populations tend to increase at a faster rate than their food supply normally allows.
c. Earth changed over the years through a series of catastrophic upheavals.
d. The environment is responsible for natural selection.
e. Earth is more than 10,000 years old.
8. In the mid-1900s, the Soviet geneticist Lysenko believed that his winter wheat plants, exposed to ever-
colder temperatures, would eventually give rise to ever more cold-tolerant winter wheat. Lysenko's
attempts in this regard were most in agreement with the ideas of
a. Cuvier.
b. Hutton.
d. Darwin.
c. Lamarck
e. Lyell.
9. Which of the following ideas is not included in Darwin's theory?
a. All organisms that have ever existed arose through evolutionary modifications of ancestral species.
b. The great variety of species live today resulted from the diversification of ancestral species.
c. Natural selection drives some evolutionary change.
d. Natural selection preserves favourable traits.
e. Natural selection eliminates adaptive traits.
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