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2/3/06 Quiz

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What are the three feilds from which evidance for evolution comes?   Hemology, biogeography, and Paleontology  
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What is Hemology?   Traits that are similar in different organisms due to common acenstry  
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What are some types of hemology?   Anatomy  
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What are vestigial Structures?   Small, tiny, structures that shrink when they aren't used  
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What is define embryological anatomy?   It is the anatomy of an embryo...how much simpler can it get???  
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How does molecular biology support evolution?   Similar proteins, DNA, RNA suggest a common ancestor  
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Generally, what do all these types of support for evolution lead to?   The idea that there is a common ancestor between some organisms  
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What is biogeography?   Geographic distribution of evolution  
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What are some examples of biogeography?   Representative types, and ocean islands.  
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Define endemics?   when an organism does not exist anywhere else in the world, it is unique to one environment.  
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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  
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Which of darwin's thoughts about evolution has to do with paleontology?   The succession of types  
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What does the succession of types show?   gradual change over time in different animals through fossils  
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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.  
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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  
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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.  
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What is a theory, as described by the Dover school board?   It is a well-tested explanation that unifies a broad range of observations.  
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what is the establishment clause?   Prohibits state sponsored religion  
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