Chapter 5 Flashcards

1
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Useless organs left from evolution.

A

Vestigial organs

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2
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The assumptions used to understand the world around you.

A

Worldview

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3
Q

Charles Lyell had the idea of?

A

Uniformitarianism

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4
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The belief that God created everything.

A

Creation

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5
Q

Darwin’s first book?

A

Origin of Species

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6
Q

Slow and gradual evolution?

A

Gradualism

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7
Q

Short periods of rapid evolution spread out?

A

Punctuated Equilibrium

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8
Q

Darwin’s hope for evolutionary evidence?

A

Transitional forms

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9
Q

The “new” spontaneous generation using chemicals?

A

Abiogensis

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10
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What is an originally created type of organism?

A

Kind

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11
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What describes the phenomena of certain genes being better suited for certain conditions to survive?

A

Natural selection

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12
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What view teaches that there has been no variation since creation?

A

Lawn View

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13
Q

A random, permanent change in DNA?

A

Mutation

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14
Q

What term refers to information can not occur by chance?

A

Specified complexity

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15
Q

The stars are an example of?

A

General Revelation

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16
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What is the study of similar body structures?

A

Comparative anatomy

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17
Q

What term refers to so many animals having 5 fingers?

A

Homology

18
Q

Who wrote Natural Theology?

A

William Paley

19
Q

Who came up with the idea of comparative anatomy?

A

George Cuvier

20
Q

Creation is what revelation?

A

General

21
Q

The idea that nothing is spiritual?

A

Materialism

22
Q

The increase in scientific discovery was from?

A

Protestant Reformation and the Bible

23
Q

Science put to practical use?

A

Technology

24
Q

Living Pictures of Herbs

A

Otto Brunfels

25
Q

Wrote Natural Selection

A
26
Q

Studied Blood circulation

A

William Harvey

27
Q

Wrote Fabrica

A

Andreas Vesalius

28
Q

Started the Philosophical College

A

John Wilkins

29
Q

Started the French Academy of Science

A

Huguenots

30
Q

Where was Leonhard Fuchs from?

A

Tubingen Germany

31
Q

Who was the Roman statesman that supported science?

A

Cicero

32
Q

What idea says that a type of organism is better to survive in an environment?

A

Natural selection

33
Q

DNA is the most efficient method of information storage. This is evidence that it needs a__________?

A

Inventor

34
Q

Mutations do not create new______________ or new_____________________?

A

Information and kinds

35
Q

Change within a kind of organisms within the gene pool?

A

Speciation

36
Q

There are 3 ways to look at living things (know them and define them)

A

Tree of life- everything from one common point
Lawn View- nothing has changed since creation
Orchard- we have the trees with every tree as a different kind that branches out to have all the various species within that kind

37
Q

Living things arising from nonliving things?

A

Spontaneous generation

38
Q

The idea that human embryos go through stages of adult evolutionary forms?

A

Embryonic recapitulation

39
Q

Evolutionists suggest that human embryos have______________________________?

A

Gill slits, a tail, and yolk sac

40
Q

Eohippus/Hyracotherium

A

Evolutionary horse ancestor

41
Q

Pakicetus

A

Evolutionary whale ancestor