Ch. 13-14

Question 1

What is the idea that living things can arise from nonliving things

Answer 1

Spontaneous generation

Question 2

Who developed the doctrine of ideas

Answer 2

Plato

Question 3

What doctrine did Aristotle develop

Answer 3

Doctrine of intellect

Question 4

Who is considered the Father of Anatomy

Answer 4

Vesalius

Question 5

What was Andreas Vesalius book called

Answer 5

Fabrica

Question 6

What is the idea that the universe consists of nothing but matter and energy and has no supernatural aspects

Answer 6

Materialism

Question 7

Who was the first to devote an entire book to microscopic observations

Answer 7

Robert Hooke

Question 8

Who was the first person to devote his entire life to studies with the microscope

Answer 8

Anton van Leeuwenhoek

Question 9

What is the theory that all living things are made of living units called cells

Answer 9

Cell theory

Question 10

Reasoning from the specific events in nature to there general cause

Answer 10

Inductive reasoning

Question 11

What are tentative solutions to a scientific problem called

Answer 11

Hypotheses

Question 12

What are controlled experiments

Answer 12

Experiments where all factors are identical except the one being tested

Question 13

What is the one factor in an experiment that is being tested

Answer 13

Independent variable

Question 14

What would the group that didn’t receive treatment be called

Answer 14

Control group

Question 15

When a hypothesis receives a general consensus that it is correct, it is what

Answer 15

A theory

Question 16

If the scientific theory stands the test of time and experiments it may become what

Answer 16

Scientific law

Question 17

One of the first scientists to present evidence against spontaneous generation

Answer 17

Francesco Redi

Question 18

Who’s experiments showed that not even the simplest organisms can come from nonliving matter

Answer 18

Louis Pasteur

Question 19

What is the law of biogenesis

Answer 19

Living things can only come from other living things

Question 20

What is the idea that science can find answers to all the problems in life is

Answer 20

Scientism

Question 21

Who wrote principles of geology

Answer 21

Charles Lyell

Question 22

Who wrote the origin of species

Answer 22

Darwin

Question 23

What is the idea that the fittest and strongest members of a species are more likely to survive and reproduce

Answer 23

Natural selection

Question 24

What “science” did the followers of Darwin found which sought to improve the human species by selectively breeding humans to create a master race

Answer 24

Eugenics

Question 25

What is the changes within a particular kind of organism referring to variations in the gene pool within a population

Answer 25

Speciation

Question 26

What is the hypothetical process by which new creatures emerge from existing kinds over time

Answer 26

Macroevolution

Question 27

What is the study of fossils

Answer 27

Paleontology

Question 28

What are transitional forms

Answer 28

Fossils that connect one kind of organism with another kind by a series of tiny steps

Question 29

What is the idea that things evolved by short bursts followed by long periods without change

Answer 29

Punctuated equilibrium hypothesis

Question 30

What is the simple to complex time chart of evolution

Answer 30

Geologic column

Question 31

What is the logic fallacy of basing an argument on the very premise you are trying to prove

Answer 31

Circular reasoning

Question 32

What is the supposed extinct link between fish and amphibians

Answer 32

Coelacanth

Question 33

What is the evolutionary link between dinosaurs and modern birds

Answer 33

Archaeopteryx

Question 34

Famous hoax consisting of ape jaw and human skull

Answer 34

Piltdown man

Question 35

What was the famous mistake reproduced by a single tooth of a pig

Answer 35

Nebraska man

Question 36

Most famous Australopithecus nicknamed Lucy

Answer 36

Australopithecus afarensis

Question 37

What was handy man

Answer 37

Homo habilis

Question 38

What was modern man

Answer 38

Cro-magnon man

Question 39

What is the hypothesis that the earth and all inhabitants constitute a single living thing

Answer 39

Gaia hypothesis