Name a plant that does not have a conducting system
What are bryophytes and mosses
100
What kind of leave venation do monocots have?
What is parallel venation
100
The idea of the "inheritance of acquired characteristics" is called...
What is Lamarck's Theory?
100
A nictating membrane, or the coccyx are example of...
What is a vestigial organ?
100
Name a characteristic unique to man
What is the use of language (or critical thinking)
200
Name the reproductive cycle used by mosses
What is alternation of generations
200
Name the male parts of the flower
What are the anther, filament, and stamen
200
The theory that only the fittest individuals will survive and pass their characteristics on to the next generation is called...
What is natural selection?
200
What is the formal name for the science of naming and classifying?
What is taxonomy?
200
The first skeleton of a "caveman" found in Germany is called...
What is "Neanderthal man?"
300
What type of cells store starches within the plant?
What is the chloroplast
300
What is the function of the sepal?
What is "protection of the inner flower organs prior to blooming"
300
The petrified forest in Arizona is an example of this type of fossil
What is a replacement fossil?
300
The viceroy butterfly and the monarch are an example of...
What is mimicry?
300
Pithecanthropes erectes means...
What is "ape man stands erect"
400
What type of root system has one main root that grows longer than any of its branches?
What is a taproot system?
400
This type of plant is characterized by seeds that are completely covered by the fruit wall (as opposed to being out in the open) are called...
What is an angiosperm?
400
The first primitive vertebrates and the abundance of algae is attributed to this period in the evolutionary time table...
What is the Cambrian era?
400
According to evolutionary thinking, are animals next to each other on the phylogenic tree more recently related to each other or to their common ancestor?
What is "each other"
400
Zinjanthropus was found on the continent of....
What is "Africa"
500
This is the process by which molecules or ions move from a region of higher concentration to lower concentration.
What is diffusion?
500
Flower clusters that do not terminate growth with the first flower are called...
What is indeterminate florescence?
500
Uniformitarianism is the system of belief that says...
What is "the present is the key to the past"
500
Provide an example of structural homology...
What is the "hand" of the salamander, crocodile, and man (or answers may vary)
500
A very modern fossil type, called Swanscobe man, was found in...