Biological Evolution Chapter 10

Question 0

Used generally,the term evolution refers to:
A. The changing of organisms to become what we see alive today
B. The changing of a thing to become improved or more complex
C. Any concept that is against the Bible
D. Any belief against creationism

Answer 0

B. The changing of a thing to become improved or more complex

Question 1

The argument that building your muscles will NOT cause your children to have big muscles could be used to refute whom?

Answer 1

Lamarck

Question 2

According to De Vries, the organism capable of the most evolution does what?

Answer 2

Mutates easily

Question 3

Of all the gene mutations man has observed in organisms, the vast majority are:

Answer 3

Harmful

Question 4

Which of the following is NOT one of the points Darwin used in his theory of natural selection?
A. More young are produced than remain alive
B. Individuals in a species compete with each other for resources
C.the embryos of many organisms appear to be similar
D. The individuals with the best characteristics to obtain the resources they need will survive.

Answer 4

C. The embryos of many organisms appear to be similar

Question 5

Where can you find a complete and uninterrupted fossil record?

Answer 5

Nowhere

Question 6

The gradual change of one kind of organism into another -

Answer 6

Biological evolution

Question 7

Changes in an organism’s genetic makeup account for evolutionary changes-

Answer 7

Evolutionary-mutation theory

Question 8

Cutting of the tails of many generations of mice disprove this theory -

Answer 8

Inheritance of acquired characteristics

Question 9

A genetic change that can be passed down to offspring -

Answer 9

Somatic mutation

Question 10

The ship Darwin sailed on-

Answer 10

HMS Beagle

Question 11

The idea that the environment destroys organisms that are less able than others to live in the environment -

Answer 11

Theory of natural selection

Question 12

A theory that is also know as Neo-Darwinism

Answer 12

Mutation-selection theory

Question 13

An organism that evolutionists claim has different groups of organisms as its offspring -

Answer 13

Common ancestor

Question 14

An organism that probably never existed but is needed to fill out the evolutionary path of other organisms -

Answer 14

Missing link

Question 15

A record of past living things -

Answer 15

Fossil record

Question 16

An extinct bird -

Answer 16

Archaeopteryx

Question 17

What is industrial melanism?

Answer 17

The theory that organisms change to a darker color because human activity causes their surroundings to become darker.

Question 18

What is the name of the islands where Darwin observed animals?

Answer 18

Galápagos Islands

Question 19

What is the evolutionary family tree?

Answer 19

A diagram demonstrating the supposed stages of biological evolution

Question 20

What are similar structures that evolutionists say are best explained by common ancestry?

Answer 20

Homologous structures

Question 21

What is the modern animal that supposedly descended from Pakicetus and Ambulocetus?

Answer 21

The whale

Question 22

Name 2 animals that Darwin observed.

Answer 22

Finches and tortoises

Question 23

Did the island tortoises that Darwin observed change to another kind of organism?

Answer 23

No

Question 24

T/F Natural selection is often described as being very much like selective breeding.

Answer 24

T

Question 25

T/F natural selection works only for characteristics already in existence.

Answer 25

T

Question 26

T/F through biological evolution, the Padaung people of Burma have grown very long necks

Answer 26

F

Question 27

T/F the term survival of the fittest is most closely associated with the theories of De Vries.

Answer 27

F

Question 28

T/F using special equipment and controlled conditions, some scientists have created living cells from non living materials.

Answer 28

F