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Biology chapter 8&9
Test help! This is All of Mr. Gallagher's note's! Good luck! :)
Question | Answer |
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Perspective used to interpret and understand the world. | Worldveiw |
Based on acceptance of the Bible as truth | Christian worldveiw |
Ex-nihilo | Out of nothing! |
Free from religions ideas | Secular worldview |
Belief that science is the only path to trtuh | Scientism |
Explanation of creation without a creator | Theory of evolution |
The Big Bang Theory | Theory that everything came from an explosian |
The universe consists of only matter and energy no spiritual or supernatural | Materialism |
Natural is that exists (materialism) | Naturalism |
change within a particular kind of organism | Speciation |
Process by which new kinds of creatures emerge of already existing ones over time | Macroevlution |
God doesn't exist, man isn't responsible to God Man don't need a saviour, mans religeon is scientism | Results of believeing evolution |
Matter of viewpoint? | A person either accepts the bible or not! Both views are based on Faith! |
Remains or impressions of an organism preserved in rock. | Fossils |
The study of fossils | Paleontology |
How old is the earth? | About 6,000 |
Created theory of need and theory of inheritance of acquired characteristics. | Jean Lamarck |
British Naturalist who is largely responsible for the acceptance of evolution | Charles Darwin |
HMS Beagle | Boat Charles Darwin took a voyage on for 5 years |
Book Charles Darwin wrote? | Origin of Species |
newer forms of organisms are descendants of older similiar organisms | Theory of descent with modification |
the single life form that all living things descend from | Common Ancestor |
controlled breeding to obtain desired traits | Artificial Selection |
Natural Selection (Survival of the fittest) | The fittest and the strongest of each species survive and are more likely to reproduce than the other weaker species |
The ability to produce offspring that survive | Fitness |
All members of species die | Extinct |
Charles Darwin'second book | Descent of man |
Exscuse to remove god from life Justified the ideas of Marx and Hitler Place cause of sin on nature not people | Effects of Darwinism |
Revealed to be a hoax in 1953 | Piltdown man |
Entire Body came from pigs tooth | Nebraska Man |
Very similiar to modern Apes | Ramapithecus |
First link in change toward humans | Lucy |
Either fully human or fully Ape | Java Man and Peking Man |
Human fossils with heavy brows and sloping forheads; found in Germany | Neanderthal man |
Evolutionists now admit he is identical to modern man | Cro-Magnon Man |
Life coming from non-living substances | Abiogenisis |
Where did first life come from? | Evolution tjrough natural selection assumes life to already exists |
A hypothetical vertical slice of the earth crusts that shows a simple to complex sequence of fossils; Has never been found Uses curcilur reasoning | Geologic collumn |
Remains of an exinct organism that supposedly lived during a certain time of evolution. | Index fossill |
Based on the fact that atoms of certain elements break down into atoms of other elements at fast rates. | Radiometric dating |
Blending of Darwin's theory of natural selection & De Vrie's theory of mutations | Mutation Selection theory (Neo-Darwinism) |
Problems with the mutation theory! | Mutations are rare and random! mutations must occur in the reproductive cells to be passed on. Mutations are harmful or neutral not good!This idea is impossible |
A fossil that connects one kind of organism with another kind by a series of tiny steps | Transitional forms |
There are none of these? | Transitional forms |
Evolution occurs in sudden spurts followed by long periods without noticeable change. | Puncuated equilibrium |
Organs of similiar structure that are found in different organisms | Homologous structures |
An organ which no longer has a function. | Vestigual stucture |
A literal interpretation of The Bible ( Each Day morning and Evening was a 24 hour period of time)Often called young earth creationists | Short-Day theory |
A mixture of the Bible and evolution. Tries to interpret biblical statements to support evolution as God's method of creation | Theistic Evolution |
Holds that each of the seven days in Genesis were long periods of time or ages | Day age theory |
The earth is millions of years old and that at particular moments in time, God created new creatures | Progressive creation |
Trying to interpret Genesis in literary light. The amount of time and order of events doesn't matter | Framework Hypothesis |
Holds that there was a long period of time between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2 | Gap theory |
Earth before the flood | Antideluvian |
Earth after the flood | Postdeluvian |
Many types of fossils require the organism to be buried very quickly and be placed under pressure | Fossil Formation |
Classifying organisms into groups based on similarities | Taxonomy |
Artificial classification system based on observable characteristics was made by who? | Aristotle |
Swedish naturalists who made a new classification system in the mid-1700's | Carolus Linnaues |
Kingdom phylum class order family genus species | Today's system of classification |
Each group can be divided into several groups on the next lower level | Rules for hierarchy |
6 Kingdoms | Kingdom Eabacteria Kingdom Archaebacteria Kingdom protista Kingdom Fungi Kingdom Planteor Kingdom Animalia |
1st name 2nd name | Binomial Normenclature Naming system proposed by Lanneus |
Each organism is given a ?? | Genus and a species name |
Genus needs to be? | Caps and underlined |
Each Species needs to be? | Caps and underlined |
A population of organisms that is similiar but has variations. | Species. |
The natural groups of organisms established by God. | Biblical Kind |
The formation of new Species. | Speciation |
The adjustment of an organism to an environment which it is not accustomed | Adaptaion |
De'Vrie | Created Mutation selection |
Belief that you can tell the future by looking back into the pasts | Uniformatarianism by Charles lyell |