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What method of rock dating can only be used for young organisms?
Carbon - 14 dating
A random change in an organism's genetic material/DNA sequence
Mutation
What are preserved remains of plants and animals?
Fossils
What is the model that states that simpler organisms have slowly changed into new and more complex organisms over millions of years?
Evolution
The process through which organisms with certain adaptations survive to pass on their traits to a greater number of offspring than other organisms do.
Theory of Natural Selection
Fossil A is found above Fossil B in soil. According to relative dating, which is younger?
Fossil A
Did Jesus Quote Genesis as though it described real people and real events?
Yes
A fossil in which the organic material has been replaced with minerals?
Mineralized fossil
The modern model of evolution that blends mutations and natural selection.
Modern synthesis
A principle that geologic processes that occurred in the past can be explained by current geologic processes.
Uniformitarianism
Petrified wood is an example of?
Mineralized fossil
There are records of many fossils of organisms becoming extinct at the same time. What is a Biblical reasoning?
The worldwide flood
A fossil of a footprint, trail, burrow, or other trace of an animal
Trace fossil
Were mutations discovered before or after Darwin's time?
After
Why are transitional forms a problem for evolutionsts?
If evolution is true, there have been many partially developed body parts. These transitional forms are not found in the fossil record.
Random mutations that accumulate with the DNA of a population of organisms
Genetic Load
The idea that says that species do NOT change over time.
Fixity of species
Carbonized fossil
What two theories inspired Darwin to study evolution?
Theory of acquired traits
Uniformitarianism
Features that are shared by distinct types of organisms
Homologous structures
A distinct group of organisms that God created to reproduce.
Kind
The posture of animals that have died by drowning. Many fossils show evidence of having died watery surroundings. What is the pose called?
Dinosaur Death Pose
When an animal leaves an empty cavity within hardened sediment. Sand or mud often fills this and hardens.
Molds and Casts
A species of organisms whose descendants are belived to form two distinct species
Common ancestor
A structure that according to evolutionary theory no longer has a function?
Vestigial structures