Chapter 5 Flashcards
Useless organs left from evolution.
Vestigial organs
The assumptions used to understand the world around you.
Worldview
Charles Lyell had the idea of?
Uniformitarianism
The belief that God created everything.
Creation
Darwin’s first book?
Origin of Species
Slow and gradual evolution?
Gradualism
Short periods of rapid evolution spread out?
Punctuated Equilibrium
Darwin’s hope for evolutionary evidence?
Transitional forms
The “new” spontaneous generation using chemicals?
Abiogensis
What is an originally created type of organism?
Kind
What describes the phenomena of certain genes being better suited for certain conditions to survive?
Natural selection
What view teaches that there has been no variation since creation?
Lawn View
A random, permanent change in DNA?
Mutation
What term refers to information can not occur by chance?
Specified complexity
The stars are an example of?
General Revelation
What is the study of similar body structures?
Comparative anatomy