Chapter 2 Croossword

2. he developed an early theory of evolution involving the inheritance of acquired characteristics although his mechanism of evolution was wrong.
6. he is the father of modern genetics, and was a christian monk by profession but a scientist by nature.
7. 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.
10. 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.
12. he concluded that each Finch species had adapted to the particular environment and food resources of its island.
13. adaptive radiation is a type of
14. He did pioneering biological research using a very simple microscope.
15. the genetic makeup of an organism; the combination of alleles for a given gene.

1. The theory that processes that occurred in the geologic past are still at work today.
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. he created the first scientific classification of plants and animals.
4. as proposed by Darwin, the units of inheritance, supposedly accumulated in the gametes so they could be passed on to offspring.
5. he provided geologic evidence necessary for calculating time span of evolution.
8. the study of extinct life forms through the analysis of fossils.
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.
11. presented the binomial nomenclature taxonomy of plants and animals.