Building Blocks in Life Science Chapters 9-10

Question 1

What Christian creationist biologist of the 1700s gave us our binomial system of scientific naming as well as our system of taxonomic ranks?

Answer 1

Carolus Linnaeus (or Karl von Linne)

Question 2

Arrange the seven taxonomic ranks in order from largest to smallest group:

Answer 2

kingdom, phylum (division), class, order, family, genus, species

Question 3

Hemoglobin, the protein that carries oxygen in most vertebrates, is also found scattered through many invertebrate groups (earthworms, sea starts, etc.) in a ___ pattern that favors ___.

Answer 3

mosaic, creation

Question 4

God may have “mixed and matched” various complex and complete traits with other complex and complete traits in ways that would:

Answer 4

rule out evolutionary branching patterns of descent, reject concepts of both no gods and many gods, make sure His “eternal power and divine nature have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made”