BIO120H1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Thomas Robert Malthus, Drosophila Melanogaster, Daphne Major

• School: UTSG
• Department: Biology
• Course: BIO120H1
• Professor: James Thomson

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Founder of the modern evolutionary synthesis (merging of mendelian genetics with population genetics. Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution : said the mechanism for evolution was the inheritance of acquired characteristics, giraffe neck example. Proved wrong by august weisman"s germ plasm theory: germ plasm theory, proved lamark"s theory wrong, showed that genetic information can pass from dna to proteins but not in reverse. Said that inheritance only happens by germ cells (gametes) , and somatic cells can"t pass genetic information to gametes: co-discovered the chief mechanism of evolution: Wrote on the tendency of varieties to depart. Indefinitely from the original type , which he gave to. Darwin in 1858, leading to the publication of on the. Origin of species : wrote principles of geology which darwin read in. 1830: argued that present day geological processes can explain the history of the earth gradualism.