True or False. Darwin’s theory of natural selection states that mutations are the cause for survival of the fittest.
What is false?
What is the largest organ in the body?
Skin.
What is not a part of the biblical view of the history of life?
What is sickness and death have always been present?
How do you say 5 in Spanish?
Cinco
True or False. The fossil record shows that many plants and animals from the past are no longer around today.
What is true?
A fossil is found above an igneous rock layer that is dated at 50 million years. Scientists would then conclude that the fossil is __________.
What is younger that 50 million years?
Random changes in DNA are called _______.
What is mutations?
What is meant by the phrase “survival of the fittest”?
Survival of the fittest refers to the process by which individuals in a species with better traits survive and reproduce.
The preserved remains of plants and animals are called _________.
What is fossils?
Evolutionists say that these features of an organism no longer have a function.
What is vestigial structures?
What do you call a baby horse?
Foal
Evolutionists assume that this organism’s family tree branches into different groups of organisms.
What is common ancestor?
Evolutionists say that these similar features found in organisms are the result of common ancestry.
What is structures?
This is the use of early stages of development to show supposed relationships between vertebrate animals.
What is embryology?
These intermediate organisms with partially developed body parts are missing from fossil records.
What is transitional forms?