Ch. 9 Definitions A
A trace or remnant of an organism that has been preserved by natural means.
What is a fossil?
Any change in an organism's genetic material.
What is a mutation?
A listing of family history, such as the "begat" or " son of" passages .
What is genealogy?
The mating of an organism with its close relatives or in the case of plants, with itself.
What is inbreeding?
Terrible or monstrous lizard.
What is dinosaur?
To give up something in order to come to an agreement.
What is compromise?
Using special techniques to control the genetic makeup of an organism.
What is genetic engineering?
The belief that earth is millions or even billions of years old.
What is old-earth theory?
A type of mutation that can be harmful or even cause death in an organism.
What is lethal mutation?
The materials that settle out.
What is a sediment?
Those who believe that the earth is around 6,000 years old.
What is young-earth Creationists
Mutations that occur in gametes or the cells that form gametes.
What is germ mutation?
When materials settle out as a moving substance slows down.
What is sedimentation?
Mutations that occur in body cells.
What is somatic mutation?
The belief that Creations was made up for seven twenty-four hour days.
What is a literal view?
The theory that uses 1 Peter 3:8 as it's foundation and says that days in the Old Testament were more the twenty-four hour days.
What is the long-day theory?
A change involving the number of chromosomes or location of genes on a chromosome.
What is chromosomal change?
The belief that Creation occurred over a long period and not a short period of time.
What is Progressive Creationism?
Occurs when there are changes in the sequences of bases in the segments of DNA that makes up a gene.
What is gene mutation?
The theory that claims God created a complete "first creation" in Genesis 1.
What is the gap theory?
The belief that the physical universe, including the earth and all living things, was created by God.
What is Biblical Creationism?
To find and identify the location of all human genes on the chromosomes and to match the genes with specific human traits.
What is the Human Genome Project?
The belief that the physical universe, including life, was not created but happened by chance.
What is evolutionism?
Man chooses organisms with desirable traits and breeds them hoping that their offspring will have those same traits.
What is selective breeding?
It states that God used evolution as a method of creating the diversity o life seen today.
What is Theistic Evolution?