What Darwin Never Knew – Quiz 7

April 15, 2010

Science 110

1. When was Darwin born?

2. In what year was “Origin of the Species” published?
3. What was it that Darwin sought to understand about
species?
4. What was the prevailing view before Darwin about the
origin of species?
5. How did Darwin explain gill slits in human embryos?
6. Darwin coined the phrase “ descent with modification”.
What does this phrase mean?
7. Mutation forms the basis of __________ within species
which in turn leads to evolution.
8. DNA has three functions: genes that form _________, a
molecular ______, a plan for the ________,.
9. The Tiktaalik is a relative to the Paddlefish found in the
waters of the Mississippi.
10. How many genes in the human genome?