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Ecology Quiz 2
2/3/06 Quiz
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What are the three feilds from which evidance for evolution comes? | Hemology, biogeography, and Paleontology |
| What is Hemology? | Traits that are similar in different organisms due to common acenstry |
| What are some types of hemology? | Anatomy |
| What are vestigial Structures? | Small, tiny, structures that shrink when they aren't used |
| What is define embryological anatomy? | It is the anatomy of an embryo...how much simpler can it get??? |
| How does molecular biology support evolution? | Similar proteins, DNA, RNA suggest a common ancestor |
| Generally, what do all these types of support for evolution lead to? | The idea that there is a common ancestor between some organisms |
| What is biogeography? | Geographic distribution of evolution |
| What are some examples of biogeography? | Representative types, and ocean islands. |
| Define endemics? | when an organism does not exist anywhere else in the world, it is unique to one environment. |
| What is wallace's line? | Boundry between australlian species moving northwest and ocean species moving south east Species have adapted to new environments as they migrated between continents |
| Which of darwin's thoughts about evolution has to do with paleontology? | The succession of types |
| What does the succession of types show? | gradual change over time in different animals through fossils |
| What is intelligent design? | The idea that an intelligent designer played a role in some aspect of the evolution of life on earth, usually the origin of life itself. Generally, a thinly disguised version of scientific creationism. |
| Why is ID not accepted as science? | This is not testable of falsifiable, we can't go back in time and see if a cell biologist created the world. We can't falsify it either |
| What is a theory? | It must be falsifiable and testable, like a hypothesis, but it must have several important factors in support of it. It's almost the combination of several hypotheses. |
| What is a theory, as described by the Dover school board? | It is a well-tested explanation that unifies a broad range of observations. |
| what is the establishment clause? | Prohibits state sponsored religion |
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