BIOL359 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Allele Frequency, Darwinism, Genotype Frequency
26 Apr 2013
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Religious school board members asking for it to be included in science classes against parents. Of pandas and people = supplemental biology text. William paley (1802): complex eye eye maker. If tested to be incorrect, original hypothesis is abandoned or modified: scientific law: descriptive generalization about how some aspects of the natural world behaves under specific specified circumstances (prescriptive) Vernacular: facts are about the same, hypothesis: similar to a guess, law: descriptive to prevent someone doing certain things. Evolutionary biology began in the 1859s after the publication of the on the origin of species. Before evolution, plato aristotle, god"s creation following a plan the great chain of being : changing would imply imperfection. Lamarck: the 1st person to explore the issue of evolution, inheritance of acquired characteristics (e. g. giraffe"s neck) spontaneous generation, and evolve towards a perfect form. Erasmus darwin: species are modified descendants of earlier forms.
