Chapter 5 Flashcards

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Useless organs left from evolution.

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Vestigial organs

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The assumptions used to understand the world around you.

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Worldview

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3
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Charles Lyell had the idea of?

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Uniformitarianism

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4
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The belief that God created everything.

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Creation

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5
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Darwin’s first book?

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Origin of Species

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6
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Slow and gradual evolution?

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Gradualism

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7
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Short periods of rapid evolution spread out?

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Punctuated Equilibrium

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8
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Darwin’s hope for evolutionary evidence?

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Transitional forms

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9
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The “new” spontaneous generation using chemicals?

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Abiogensis

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10
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What is an originally created type of organism?

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Kind

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

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Natural selection

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

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Lawn View

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13
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A random, permanent change in DNA?

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Mutation

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14
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What term refers to information can not occur by chance?

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Specified complexity

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15
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The stars are an example of?

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General Revelation

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16
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What is the study of similar body structures?

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Comparative anatomy

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17
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What term refers to so many animals having 5 fingers?

18
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Who wrote Natural Theology?

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William Paley

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Who came up with the idea of comparative anatomy?

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George Cuvier

20
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Creation is what revelation?

21
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The idea that nothing is spiritual?

22
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The increase in scientific discovery was from?

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Protestant Reformation and the Bible

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Science put to practical use?

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Living Pictures of Herbs

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Otto Brunfels

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Wrote Natural Selection
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Studied Blood circulation
William Harvey
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Wrote Fabrica
Andreas Vesalius
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Started the Philosophical College
John Wilkins
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Started the French Academy of Science
Huguenots
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Where was Leonhard Fuchs from?
Tubingen Germany
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Who was the Roman statesman that supported science?
Cicero
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What idea says that a type of organism is better to survive in an environment?
Natural selection
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DNA is the most efficient method of information storage. This is evidence that it needs a__________?
Inventor
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Mutations do not create new______________ or new_____________________?
Information and kinds
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Change within a kind of organisms within the gene pool?
Speciation
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There are 3 ways to look at living things (know them and define them)
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
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Living things arising from nonliving things?
Spontaneous generation
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The idea that human embryos go through stages of adult evolutionary forms?
Embryonic recapitulation
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Evolutionists suggest that human embryos have______________________________?
Gill slits, a tail, and yolk sac
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Eohippus/Hyracotherium
Evolutionary horse ancestor
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Pakicetus
Evolutionary whale ancestor