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This is an on-line version of the same Content Review questions included at the end of the chapter in your textbook. Use this version to quickly and easily submit your work to your instructor or teaching assistant.

1. Anton van Leeuwenhoek made a huge contribution to the development of the cell theory. How?

2. In the experiments with nutrient broth diagramed in Figure 1.2, what were the two treatments designed to test?

3. What does the term evolution mean? (Select all that apply.)

4. Which of the following results in evolution in natural populations?

5. What does it mean to say that a characteristic of an organism is heritable?

6. What is a phylogeny?

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1.	Anton van Leeuwenhoek made a huge contribution to the development of the cell theory. How?



2.	In the experiments with nutrient broth diagramed in Figure 1.2, what were the two treatments designed to test?



3.	What does the term evolution mean? (Select all that apply.)



4.	Which of the following results in evolution in natural populations?



5.	What does it mean to say that a characteristic of an organism is heritable?



6.	What is a phylogeny?



Answer choices in this exercise are randomized and will appear in a different order each time the page is loaded.

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