课程名称︰演化生物学
课程性质︰选修
课程教师︰丘台生
开课学院：生命科学院
开课系所︰生命科学系
考试日期（年月日）︰2017.4.18
考试时限（分钟）：120分钟
试题 :
Answer following question:(10 pts each)
1.Explain the terms-Evolution and Evolutionary Biology.
2.Define the following terms:Scala Naturae, Uniformitarianism.
3.Please describe Darwin's major theories of evolution.
4.Why Mutationists and Selectionists can work together after 1930s?
5.What is its meant by fossil incomplete? How can we measure the
completeness of a fossil sequence?
6.Please describe the ways of dividing fossil series into species.
7.What is Haeckel's biogenetic law?Why embryological characters can be
used for supporting evolution?
8.Traditional bio-geographer relied on land-bridge and dispersal to explain
current fauna distribution.Why they are not sound enough, and
subsequently replaced with modern biogeography?
9.What are molecular clock theory and gene homology?
10.Explain the following terms:Primitive-earth experiment, Endosymbiosis,
Paedomorphosis.