Ch. 1 Test

Question 1

Natural Selection

Answer 1

When some people are better equipped for survival than others and those less equipped would die.

Question 2

Origins

Answer 2

Beginnings - creation & evolution

Question 3

Classification

Answer 3

The grouping of objects or organisms based on a set of criteria.

Question 4

Taxonomy

Answer 4

The discipline of identifying, naming, and classifying organisms.

Question 5

Phylogeny

Answer 5

The evolutionary history of a species

Question 6

Cladogram

Answer 6

A branching diagram that represents a proposed phylogeny of a species or group.

Question 7

Ancestral characters (cladistic analyses)

Answer 7

are found within the entire line of descent of a group of organisms.

Question 8

Derived characters (cladistic analyses)

Answer 8

are only found after a split from the descendent line.

Question 9

Homologous structures

Answer 9

Similar structure and different functions (homes have similar structures but different functions inside)

Question 10

What is NOT evidence of evolution?

Answer 10

The flood occurred

Question 11

What is evidence of evolution?

Answer 11

• The fossil record
• Comparative anatomy & embryology
• Genetic similarities
• Vestigial structures

Question 12

Analogous structures

Answer 12

Different structure and similar functions

Question 13

Vestigial structures

Answer 13

A structure believed to once have use but evolved to become functionless.

Question 14

3 ways to classify organisms

Answer 14

1. Size and structure
2. Red-blooded or bloodless
3. Plants/animals

Question 15

What does the fossil record NOT show?

Answer 15

The change of the size of an alligators teeth over years.

Question 16

What does the Fossil Record show?

Answer 16

• Some species have changed very little
• Modern species resemble ancient species
• Record of the sequence in with fossils would have been buried in the flood

Question 17

Embryo

Answer 17

An early, pre-birth stage of an organism’s development.

Question 18

Young - Earth Creation theory

Answer 18

God created Earth

Question 19

Creation Passive Gap Theory

Answer 19

God created materials of Earth sometime in the past

Question 20

Creation active gap theory

Answer 20

God created life, destroyed it, and created life again.

Question 21

Progressive creation

Answer 21

God performed serval creations at various times over long periods of Earth’s history.

Question 22

Evolution (Micro & Macro)

Answer 22

Micro = small changes
Macro = large changes
God has nothing to do with it

Question 23

Punctuated Equilibrium

Answer 23

Evolution occurred in short, fast bursts followed by long periods of time with hardly any change.

Question 24

Exogenesis or Panspermia

Answer 24

Life originated somewhere else in the Universe and was carried to Earth here in debris from space.