BIOL 1001 Study Guide - Final Guide: Stabilizing Selection, Population Genetics, Disruptive Selection
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Pre-darwinian science, heavily influenced by theology, held that all organisms were created simultaneously by god and that each distinct life-form remained fixed and unchanging from the moment of its creation. Plato proposed that each object on earth is merely a temporary reflection of its divinely inspired. Plato"s student aristotle categorized all organisms into a linear hierarchy that he called the. Georges louis leclerc (comte de buffon) suggested that species had changed over time through natural processes. Change over time in the characteristics of a population. Population: consists of all individuals of one species in a particular area. The descent of modern organisms, with modification, from preexisting life-forms. The theory that all organisms are related by common ancestry and have changed over time. Any change in the genetic makeup (the proportions of different genotypes) of a population from one generation to the next.