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#Question id: 9154

The main reason polar regions are cooler than the equator is that ________.

#Unit 9. Diversity of Life Forms
  1. solar radiation strikes the poles at a lower angle and travels through more atmosphere
  2. the poles are farther from the sun than is the equator
  3. the polar atmosphere is thinner and contains fewer greenhouse gases
  4. the poles are permanently tilted away from the sun
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#Question id: 15718

#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

Christians interpreted the biblical account of Genesis literally and concluded that each species had been created individually by God in the same form it has today. This belief is known as

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#Question id: 15719

#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

Carolus Linnaeus (1707–1778), who established the framework of modern taxonomy in his Systema Naturae (1735), won worldwide fame for his exhaustive classification of plants and animals, undertaken in the hope of discovering the pattern of the creation. Linnaeus classified,
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#Question id: 15720

#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

The geologists ________ expounded the principle of uniformitarianism, holding that the same processes operated in the past as in the present and that the data of geology should therefore be explained by causes that we can now observe.
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#Question id: 15721

#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

Lamarck argued that species differ from one another because they have different needs, and so use certain of their organs and appendages. This hypothesis is known as?
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#Question id: 15722

#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

The variation that arises is directed toward fixed goals, so that a species evolves in a predetermined direction by some kind of internal drive, without the aid of natural selection. This hypothesis is known as,
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#Question id: 15723

#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

Neutral theory of molecular evolution of is given by,