Explain the significance of the Grants' research.

Explain how the effectiveness of an antibiotic decreases with time.

What characteristics of the Galapagos Islands were particularly important for Darwin?

How has genetic drift affected the world's populations of cheetahs?

Identify a possible risk of overuse of antibiotics.

What is the goal of artificial selection?

Which of the following provides clues about the size and structure of once-living organisms?

$$\textbf{\ \ a.}\text{ fossils}$$

$$\textbf{\ \ b.}\text{ DNA and proteins from the organisms}$$

$$\textbf{\ \ c.}\text{ vestigial structures}$$

$$\textbf{\ \ d.}\text{ development of embryos}$$

How can evolutionary theory explain why Australia is home to relatively few native placental mammals?

Tell how the forelimbs of a bat, a whale, a cat, and a human contribute evidence to support the hypothesis that these mammals evolved from a common ancestor.

How do Lyell's ideas about geology and evidence from the fossil record reinforce each other as ideas about the age of Earth?

Describe how the ideas of Lamarck and Darwin are similar and how they differ.

Analyzing Data: A population containing striped and unstriped snails has recently moved into a new region. Birds break the snails open by dropping them onto rocks. The birds eat the bodies of the snails and leave the shells. In one area, researchers counted both live snails and broken shells. The data are summarized below.

a.Based on the data, tell which form of snail (striped or unstriped) is more likely to be caught by the birds for food. Explain.
b. Suggest a hypothesis to explain what is happening to the snails.
c. Predict how the frequencies of striped and unstriped individuals in the population might change over the generations.

How does natural selection lead to adaptation?

What is microevolution?