Biology - Quiz 15 (5.3-5.4)

Question 1

the belief that evolution occurs by slow and gradual change (choice)

Answer 1

gradualism

Question 2

the fictitious branching diagram that supposedly shows evolutionary relationships between all organisms (choice)

Answer 2

tree of life

Question 3

the philosophy of evolution is actually a faith in this… (choice)

Answer 3

nature

Question 4

the process that is a new, “scientific’ version of spontaneous generation (choice)

Answer 4

abiogenesis

Question 5

Darwin believed that the discovery of this in the fossil record would provide evidence of evolution (choice)

Answer 5

transitional forms

Question 6

Darwin first published his ideas of evolution in this book (choice)

Answer 6

Origin of Species

Question 7

“useless” organs supposedly left over from earlier stages of evolution are ______ organs (s.a.)

Answer 7

remnant

Question 8

this is a person’s foundational assumptions that he uses to understand his existence (s.a.)

Answer 8

worldview

Question 9

this is the belief that the world and everything in it was created by God (s.a.)

Answer 9

creation

Question 10

Darwin’s theory of evolution was based on Charles Lyell’s false idea of this…(s.a.)

Answer 10

uniformitarianism