BIO 1305 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Great Chain Of Being, Binomial Nomenclature, Selective Breeding

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Fill out the chart below in chronological order. He concluded that life forms could be arranged on a. Lamarck ladder, or scale, of increasing complexity, later called the scala naturae ( scale of nature ). For the greater glory of god ; binomial nomenclature. First word is genus, second word is species. Didn"t ascribe the resemblances among species to evolution. Looked at differences in strata (older meant more dissimilar than current life forms) Same progress and same rate (everything has the same rate of change or changes at the same rate) Use and disuse: if you use it, you build it. Inheritance or acquired characteristics: can pass modifications to offspring. Evolution occurred by organisms drive to become more complex. Found link to propose a mechanism of evolution. Similar to darwin + co-author of origin of species. Explain how these mantids demonstrate the 3 key observations about life.