1. James Hutton was the first to propose that geological change occurred gradually by the accumulation of small changes from processes that are occurring today, but who was the first to popularize this idea with additional geological evidence and to inspire Darwin to consider that the earth is millions of years old instead of only thousands of years old?
Charles Lyell
Charles Darwin
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Aristotle
2.
Aristotle was perhaps the first person to classify organisms, but who was the first to develop a systematic approach to classifying organism in the 1700s that is still partly used today?
Galen
Carl Linnaeus
Stephen J. Gould
Ernst Mayr
3.
A multicellular eukaryote that contains cell walls but is not capable of photosynthesis is most likely a(n)
fungus
plant
bacteria
animal
4.
Which of the following best explains the significance of Charles Darwinâs contribution to biology?
Darwin was the first to suggest a plausible mechanism of evolution and provided several lines of evidence to support evolution and his mechanism.
Darwin was the first person to suggest a mechanism for evolution.
Darwin was the first to suggest that animals descended from other animals.
Darwin was the first to suggest that fossils were evidence of organisms that no longer existed.
1. James Hutton was the first to propose that geological change occurred gradually by the accumulation of small changes from processes that are occurring today, but who was the first to popularize this idea with additional geological evidence and to inspire Darwin to consider that the earth is millions of years old instead of only thousands of years old?
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| Aristotle 2. Aristotle was perhaps the first person to classify organisms, but who was the first to develop a systematic approach to classifying organism in the 1700s that is still partly used today?
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