Chapter 2 Crossword

6. he is the father of modern genetics, and was a christian monk by profession but a scientist by nature.
9. although Darwin often gets some credit for the development of the theory of evolution through natural selection, this person contributed substantially to evolutionary theory.
10. The theory that processes that occurred in the geologic past are still at work today.
12. the genetic makeup of an organism; the combination of alleles for a given gene.
13. he developed an early theory of evolution involving the inheritance of acquired characteristics although his mechanism of evolution was wrong.
14. presented the binomial nomenclature taxonomy of plants and animals.
15. he provided geologic evidence necessary for calculating time span of evolution.
16. he created the first scientific classification of plants and animals.

1. He did pioneering biological research using a very simple microscope.
2. first proposed by Lamarck, the theory of evolution through the inheritance of acquired characteristics in which an organism can pass on features acquired during its lifetime.
3. the doctrine asserting that cataclysmic events (such as volcanoes, earthquakes, and floods), rather than evolutionary processes, are responsible for geologic changes throughout Earth's history.
4. a random change in a gene or chromosome, creating a new trait that may be advantageous, deleterious, or neutral in its effects on the organism.
5. adaptive radiation is a type of
7. the study of extinct life forms through the analysis of fossils.
8. as proposed by Darwin, the units of inheritance, supposedly accumulated in the gametes so they could be passed on to offspring.
11. he concluded that each Finch species had adapted to the particular environment and food resources of its island.