Please help quick 10 points?

Question

Lamarck was strongly opposed to the idea that acquired characteristics could be inherited.

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2: Charles Darwin is genreally credited with developing the theory of natural selection.

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3: Weismann denied the inheritance of acquired characteristics.

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4: DeVries developed his mutation theory as a result of studies in which he used white rats.

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5: Plants growing close together compete with one another for soil moisture, minerals, and sunlight.

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6: In nature, fitness depends upon the existing conditions of life.

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7: If an acquired characteristic makes an individual fit for survival, this characteristic will be passed onto the offspring.

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8: When environments change, populations of plants and animals change also.

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9: In natural selection, the nature of the environment determines whether a given characteristic is harmful or useful.

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10: Artificial selection refers to methods we use to improve our cultivated plants and domesticated animals.

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11: Some species are dispersed becuase they are accidentally transported by man.

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12: Place of origin has very little to do with the present distribution of any species.

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13: All species are about equally able to survive in different environments.

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14: Some species have become much more widely dispersed than have other species.

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15: A species is not affected by natural selection so long as it remains in its homeland.

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16: The house rat has the ability to adapt to many different environments.

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17: The long-day theory suggests that God used evolution to create the universe and everything in it.

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18: Short-day theorists believe that creation took place in six 24-hour days.

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19: The canopy theory is based on the interpretation os a "gap" between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2.

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20: II Peter 3:8 is used as the justification of the long-day theory.

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Answer 1

Wow...I wish I would of thought of this when I was in school...lol

Answer 2

is this a quiz that you are supposed to do for school???

Answer 3

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Answer 4

I don't know all of these but Caitie's definately wrong on some of them... I think she just guessed to try to get the 10 points.

3 is actually true, Weismann at first accepted the theory of inheritance of aquired characters, but later actually became the first scientist to reject it fully and place all evolutionary change in the hands of natural selection.  "Even" Darwin accepted inheritance of acquired characters to a point.

6 is true too, fitness is relative due to the conditions on hand.  For instance,  if you live underwater gills would make you more fit.  On land, it's lungs. Fitness is not some perfect, attainable ideal- it is constantly changing as the environment around us changes.

7 is false, acquired characters are NOT inherited.  That is why people in a wheelchair have children that can walk.  Their acquired inability to walk is not passed on to their offspring.

11 is obviously true.  Why are the zebra mussels invading the great lakes? They were accidently transported their by man in ships' ballast water.  Man is responsible for many accidental introductions (another that comes to mind is rats on oceanic islands)

13 is false.  Palm trees cannot survive equally well in tropical and arctic climates, and neither can polar bears.  Species are specially adapted for the environment they are in, and can obviously survive their best.

14 again, true.   Maple trees are widely dispersed, but the Ohio buckeye is not.

15 is false, organisms are constantly under pressure from natural selection.  Even in thei native lands more favorable variations may arrive, and selection must at least keep organisms  "normal"

16 sure seems true.  House rats are everywhere.

17 seems true as well, especially using question 20 as a hint.