Early definitions
The perspective a person uses to view and interpret the world
What is a worldview?
Uses God's narrative in the Bible about Creation, Fall, and Redemption to frame someone's perspective
All the living matter within an ecosystem
What is biomass?
Where the centers of cellular respiration are located
What is the mitochondria?
The human diploid chromosome number
What is 46?
The task of exercising wise dominion and stewardship over God's creation
What is the Creation Mandate?
If a scientific discovery contradicts Scripture, a Bible-believing Christian must view that discovery as:
What is invalid?
A model that shows a single path of energy from organism to organism
What is a Food Chain?
The basic building blocks of a protein
What are amino acids?
A chart showing the phenotype of the individuals in several generations of a family
What is a pedigree?
A simplified representation of reality that explains something in a useful way
The three parts of the biblical ethics triad
What are biblical principles, biblical outcomes, and biblical motivations?
A visual representation of the levels of organisms in an ecosystem through which energy flows
What is an ecological pyramid?
Structures found in the nucleus of dividing cells, they appear X-shaped
What are chromosomes?
Sections of a chromosome that code for a trait
What are Genes?
A way of describing how phenomena relate to one another, often using a formula
What is a law?
The fundamental difference between humans and the rest of God's creation
What is autonomy?
The way that an organism lives in its habitat, including its effects on that habitat and on other organisms that share the habitat
What is a Niche?
What the nucleus of an atom is made up of
The Austrian monk that established the first laws and principles of heredity
Who is Gregor Mendel?
The idea that the earth is fragile and should be used as little as possible
What is environmentalism?
An Old Testament figure portrayed in Scripture as using selective breeding methods to improve his livestock
Who is Jacob?
Regions of the biosphere that share certain environmental conditions, such as climate, and have a certain set of organisms adapted to those conditions
What are Biomes?
The First Law of Thermodynamics
What is "energy cannot be created or destroyed, only converted from one form to another"
When two haploid gametes unit and form a diploid cell called
What is a zygote?