Vocabulary
The idea that each individual species on the planet was specially created by God and could never fundamentally change
Immutability of species
Study of fossils
Paleontology
Where did Charles Darwin study various species of finches that developed different shaped beaks?
Galapagos Islands
The biggest problem in the fossil record that makes one doubt macroevolution.
Intermediate links between types of organisms are missing.
Modern languages are ______ complex than ancient ones.
Less
Neo-Darwinism proposes that _________ are able to add information to the genetic code.
mutations
The theory that natural selection can, overtime, take an organism and transform it into a more specialized species of that organism.
Microevolution
The study of similar structures in different species
Structural homology
One of two scientists that influenced Darwin's work. He said, "The present is the key to the past."
Lyell
As one moves up the geologic column, do organisms become more complex or less complex according to evolutionists.
More complex
Most mutations are ___________
Deleterious having a negative effect on the organism
Do mutations add or destroy genetic code in an organism?
destroy
The hypothesis that processes similar to those at work in microevolution can, over eons of time, transform an organism into a completely different kind of organism.
Macroevolution
The view that most of earth’s geological features are the result of slow, gradual processes that have been at work for millions or even billions of years.
Uniformitarianism
Malthus
The view that provides a solid explanation for fossil graveyards where thousands of fossils even across ecosystems are located together...catastrophism or uniformitarianism.
Catastrophism due to flooding
Intermediate links are _____________ from paleontology.
missing
The area of science looks at the genetic code of various species and the percent differences between species.
Molecular biology
Distinct layers of rock
Strata
The view that most of earth’s geological features are the result of large-scale catastrophes such as floods, volcanic eruptions, and hurricanes
Catastrophism
This refers to the fact that representatives from every major animal phylum can be found in Cambrian rock, which is some of the lowest sedimentary rock in the geological column.
Cambrian explosion
Microbiology cannot explain how multicellular organisms evolved from ______________ organisms or at least that they could progress to multicellular life without sexuality.
single-celled
Structural homology does not provide evidence for macroevolution because.....
...the code for the similar structures is located on different genes.
An attempt to explain why there are no intermediate links in the fossil record that said that mutations occurred when organisms were exposed to large amounts of radiation.
Punctuated equilibrium
A contemporary scientist of Darwin's; had his work been published would have provided valuable insight into natural selection.
Gregor Mendel
Fossils that are assumed to represent a certain period of earth’s past because they lived when that sedimentary rock was laid down
_____________ inconceivable that life could come from nonlife
Mathematically
The four means by which bacteria can gain variability in their genetic code which can help them develop resistance to antibiotics: mutation, transformation, transduction and ____________.
conjugation