7 Sci Test 4 Ch 5 Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
Aristotle | conisdered the most important authority on science during the Middle Ages |
Bible | foundation of modern science |
chemical evolution | new "scientific" spontaneous generation |
creation | belief that the universe is the result of a supernatural act of God |
Cuvier | fofunded comparative anatomy |
Darwin | author of Origin of Species and Descent of Man |
embryonic recapitulation | idea that, at various stages during their development, embryos resemble the adult forms of their evolutionary ancestors |
evolution | rock pocket nice are NOT an example of _____________ because no new types of organisms were formed |
gradulatism | belief that evolution occurs slowly |
Harvey | discovered blood circulation |
homology | basic similarity of structure between two different living things |
horse | supposed ancestors of this animal are Equus and Hyracotherium |
intelligent | information must have an _____________ cause |
kinds | term that refers to originally created types of organisms |
law of biogenesis | scientific concept that states living things can originate only from existing living thigns |
Lyell | wrote Principles of Geology |
materialism | belief that everything is material |
mutation | sudden, permanent, random change in an organism's DNA |
natural selection | Darwin proposed the idea that evolution occurs through this _____________ _____________. |
nature | God's general revelation |
orchard view | view of life consistent with both the Bible and observations |
organisms | Mutations cannot cause evolution because they do produce news kinds of _________________. |
Paley | wrote Natural Theology |
Pasteur | used broth and flasks to disprove spontaneous generation |
Protestant Reformation | birth of modern science |
punctuated equilibrium | idea that says evolution occurs in rapid bursts separated by long periods of time |
reasoning God | founders of modern science believed that true faith is a reasonable belief in a ______________ _____. |
speciation | formation of new organisms within a "kind" |
specified complexity | idea that information must have meaning and cannot occur by chance |
spontaneous generation | old Greek idea that says that living things come from nonliving things |
technology | science put to practical use |
transitional form | an intermediate organism linking types of living things |
uniformitarianism | materialistic idea that says the present is the key to the past |
Vesalius | Father of Anatomy |
vestigial organs | "useless" organs supposedly left over from earlier stages of evolutionary development |
worldview | term used to refer to a person's outlook about life and the world |
yolk sacs | three features of human embryos that supposedly provide evidence for evolution, but actually provide evidence for creation are pharyngeal arches, tails and ________ ______. |
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