Building Blocks in Life Science Chapters 1-4

Question 1

Barriers or preferences in the choice of a mate separate some parts of a gene pool from others (e.g. culture and language separates humans; size and temperament separate dogs)

Answer 1

reproductive isolation

Question 2

several small groups separate from a large population, each with percentages of alleless different from those in the original gene pool (e.g. language groups moving away from the Tower of Babel)

Answer 2

genetic drift/founder effect

Question 3

Created kinds may be called ___________, a combination of the Hebrew words bara for ___________ and min for ___________.

Answer 3

baramins; create(d); kind

Question 4

differences in mating ritual or chromosomal rearrangements of the same genes (genons) prevent interbreeding

Answer 4

fertilotype

Question 5

land animals saved on the Ark and the immune system healing deadly infections both illustrate God’s deliverance from death and disaster.

Answer 5

Christ

Question 6

effects on gene regulators make willow trees dwarfs in the Arctic

Answer 6

ecotype

Question 7

Why is it important for Christians to relate God’s world and God’s Word – science and Scripture?

Answer 7

It builds faith and trust in Scripture (the Bible), and it helps believers use the wonders of science to introduce others to the wonders of new life in Christ revealed in God’s Word.

Question 8

What does “molecules to man” evolution need that neither microevolution nor natural selection provide?

Answer 8

“Molecules to man” evolution absolutely requires a HUGE INCREASE IN BOTH THE QUANTITY and QUALITY OF GENETIC INFORMATION, and neither mutations nor Darwinian “ selection” can provide either, since they only change or select existing varieties (pointing back to prior acts of creation).

Question 9

flood conditions are ideal for forming fossils

Answer 9

catastrophe

Question 10

black, brown, grizzly, polar, and panda bears

Answer 10

morphotype

Question 11

adaptions are design features that suit each organism for its special role in the web of life

Answer 11

creation

Question 12

many defects and diseases result from chance changes in heredity called mutations

Answer 12

corruption

Question 13

varieties that consistently look different but still interbreed

Answer 13

morphotype

Question 14

can change appearance when moved to different environments

Answer 14

ecotype

Question 15

Only a few members of a species with a large gene pool survive a major disaster (e.g. animals aboard the ark)

Answer 15

genetic bottleneck

Question 16

look-alike species of fruit files with different chromosome numbers

Answer 16

fertilotype

Question 17

Members of a kind separating into distinctive subtypes as they “multiply and fill” earth’s environmental diversity (e.g. generalized bears leaving the Ark becoming black, brown, grizzly, and polar bears).

Answer 17

specialization

Question 18

Random changes in genes that often change normal genes into alleles producing defects or disease (e.g. sickle cell hemoglobin)

Answer 18

mutations

Question 19

Explain why no Christian familiar with the 4 Cs of biblical history would ever have accepted “fixity of species.”

Answer 19

The Bible refers to “kinds” in both the Creation and Flood accounts in Genesis. This does not mean “species” — it simply means kinds — which can show a lot of variety and diversity built into each one. For example, the cat kind can encompass everything from a house cat to a cheetah to an African lion. This view takes into account the major changes that occurred when mankind corrupted God’s creation; e.g., plants producing thorns, and animal predators beginning to kill and eat other animals. Fixity of species would not allow for the re-population of the earth by animals following the Great Flood — meaning that every animal that every lived in every kind would have had to be represented on the ark which was not feasible or necessary.