Lamarck’s Theory of Acquired Characteristics

Watch this video from the Triumph of Life series about evolution found at this web address.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVwB908J4W0

1) In complete sentences, please tell me 1 thing you liked or learned about watching the video (2 points).

Answer the following questions in your own words:

Explain Lamarck’s Theory of Acquired Characteristics (2 points).

What important point did Darwin get from the essay on populations that Thomas Malthus wrote (1 points)?

State 5 the facts and 3 inferences Darwin used to construct the theory of Natural Selection (3 points).

Do individuals or populations adapt? Explain (2 points).

List 3 way the allele variation can be introduced into a population (2 points)?

What are 2 of the reproductive isolating mechanisms discussed in your book (or notes) that could keep two individuals from different species successfully mating with each other? Please give a ‘real life’ (past or present) of how this might work for the 2 mechanisms you picked (2 points)?

Please define bottleneck in your own words. Give a real-life example of an endangered population that may be experiencing this (do not use northern elephant seals) (1 point).