Exam 1 Flashcards
(22 cards)
What is evolution?
A change in species over time
What is an example of not an evolution definition?
An anti-religion doctrine
What is a hypothesis by definition?
- informed conjecture
- What one may think might be true given an observation, data is needed for this
What is a theory by definition?
- A statement based on reasoning and evidence
- has never been proven wrong
- Continually withstands more testing and evidence
What is an example for theory?
that gravity can never be proven to be wrong
Absolute truth
- Unattainable goal of theory
- A theory could always find evidence to refute it
What vegetable was revolutionized with the flowers and stems of the wild mustard?
Broccoli
What vegetable was revolutionized with the flower clusters of the wild mustard?
Cauliflower
What vegetable was revolutionized with the terminal bud of the wild mustard?
Cabbage
What vegetable was revolutionized with the lateral buds of the wild mustard?
Brussel sprouts
What vegetable was revolutionized with the leaves of the wild mustard?
Kale
What vegetable was revolutionized with the stem of the wild mustard?
Kohlrabi
Homology
Same bones, different structures. Common ancestors had bone and it was modified with time
Early thinkers
- most western ideas started with greek philosophers
- there is little records of early eastern ideas on evolution
Methodological naturalism
explaining the world based on natural phenomena
Anaximander (610-546 BC)
Mechanistic view of earth and heavens
Xerophanes (570-478 BC)
Recognized fossils
Empedocles (zombie)
believed that body parts arose from the ground, parts of the earth wandered then assembled
What did Empedocles provide?
why organisms are adapted to environment
What did plato not recognize?
change in species over time
What did plato believe everything was?
that everything was some distance away from being god like
