BIOL 190 Midterm: Lecture 3-4 Exam Review

• School: University of San Diego
• Department: Biology Courses
• Course: BIOL 190
• Professor: Leavitt, Dean

Document Summary

Evolution is applicable to agriculture as it may provide better ways to kill insects as are becoming resistant to pesticides. It can help determine what is a unique species and areas with greatest biodiversity. Scala natura was the ladder system organizing everything from most simple to most complex. Evolution does not always get mroe complex and it is not linear. Very in uential, began idea of ordering species based on evolution. He began the idea of connecting organisms into groups based on similarities, which later helped suggest which species had common ancestors. Linnaeus thought species were xed: gave us scienti c names and classi cations. Idea that catastrophes wiped out entire species at a time, allowing new species to emerge. Why was the understanding the species had gone extinct important: was important because it suggested that species had to somehow die off, while some survived.