Building Blocks in Life Science Chapters 13-19

Question 1

Chemical evolution on earth is impossible; life was seeded here from outer space.

Answer 1

Crick

Question 2

used as a code to “tell” the cell how to make proteins, including enzymes

Answer 2

DNA

Question 3

The popular slogan “Evolution is science; creation is faith” is (obviously the absolute truth/nearly exactly the opposite of the truth) and is meant to (start/stop) discussion of scientific evidence.

Answer 3

nearly exactly opposite of the truth; stop

Question 4

provides the motion that destroys structure and can bring death

Answer 4

water

Question 5

Long ago, Miller accepted the evidence that his spark chamber experiment (did/did not) support chemical evolution. He tried other starting materials and conditions: these also seemed to (prevent/ promote) belief that chemicals produced life.

Answer 5

did not; prevent

Question 6

Evolution became a scientific religion, and many scientists will bend their observations to fit with it.

Answer 6

Lipson

Question 7

pass hereditary instructions from one generation to the next

Answer 7

DNA

Question 8

Using the many specific proteins in ribosomes and “translases” to establish DNA code for making specific proteins

Answer 8

Creation

Question 9

Radically changed Earth’s weather and soil conditions, and mutations perhaps help explain why God allowed meat eating

Answer 9

Catastrophe

Question 10

Mutations

Answer 10

Corruption

Question 11

provide energy to make “build up” reactions go faster than “break down”

Answer 11

ATP

Question 12

Darwin’s “war of nature…famine and death”

Answer 12

Corruption

Question 13

consist of proteins in a phospholipid bilayer

Answer 13

membranes

Question 14

provides the motion to molecules that make life possible

Answer 14

water

Question 15

DNA’s base pair replication is the basis for all “reproduction after kind.” But is DNA truly a self- reproducing molecule? Explain.

Answer 15

No. DNA is NOT self-reproducing. Its replication requires lots of raw materials and energy. Its continuing replication requires a continuously renewed supply of “expensive” raw materials and energy, the complex and pre-energized single nucleotides.

Question 16

The inference to design is based on a ruthlessly consistent application of logic; Paley was right—design implies a Designer.

Answer 16

Denton

Question 17

Using “trained viruses” and other gene carriers to cure genetic diseases, setting right what once went wrong

Answer 17

Christ

Question 18

I don’t believe there’s any evidence of creation, but if there were, the “creator” would be aliens, not God.

Answer 18

Dawkins

Question 19

regulate what gets in and out of the cell

Answer 19

membranes

Question 20

The Bible says living things are made of (not by) “dust,” simple “earthly” substances like the hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, carbon, and phosphorus that make up over 95 percent of “living matter.” Write the symbols for these five kinds of atoms: _____, _____, _____, _____, _____.

Answer 20

H, O, N, C, P

Question 21

select which molecules get an “energy boost”

Answer 21

enzymes

Question 22

Without seeing either the creator or the creative act, is there any way a scientist could tell whether an object were produced by time and chance or plan and purpose? Explain.

Answer 22

What does it take to recognize evidence of creation? Just the ordinary tools of science: logic and observation. Even when we don’t know who or what the creative agent is, there are cases where “creation” is simply the most logical inference from our scientific observations. For example: A pebble and an arrowhead can be made of the same material. Yet, the rock will show signs of weathering and processes over time. The arrowhead is clearly something deliberately made.

Question 23

Using research on adult stem cells to bring healing and restoration, following Jesus’ example

Answer 23

Christ

Question 24

DNA bases have interlocking shapes forming base pairs G-C and __-__. In RNA, U pairs like T, so interlocking DNA-RNA bases are G-C and __-__. DNA makes “messenger RNA” (mRNA) by DNA-RNA base-pairing, so the DNA for disease-causing HBS (GGACATCTT) would make mRNA sequence _____.

Answer 24

A-T; A-U; CCUGUAGAA

Question 25

large proteins with “active sites” that hold molecules with matching shapes for speedy reaction

Answer 25

enzymes

Question 26

Shuffling melanin control genes to produce all variations of human skin tone in one generation

Answer 26

Creation

Question 27

Increased mutation rates and disease, possibly led to decreased life spans

Answer 27

Catastrophe or Corruption

Question 28

There must be a God; the odds of getting life by chance is like a tornado going through a junkyard assembling a Boeing 747 jumbo jet.

Answer 28

Hoyle