Vocabulary
The theory that more specialized species can, over time and through adaptation and natural selection, descend from a common ancestor
Microevolution
The species of finches that Darwin found on the Galapagos Islands displayed different structural adaptations. What was one of the adaptations that Darwin noted?
Differences in shapes of beaks
What does the neo-Darwinist hypothesis add to Darwin's hypothesis?
Distinct layers of rock are called this.
Strata
The hypothesis that new and different organisms can, over eons of time and through natural selection, descend from a common ancestor
Macroevolution
What idea from Malthus influenced Darwin's work?
The concept of a struggle for survival
This hypothesis attempts to explain why there are no intermediate links in the fossil record.
Punctuated equilibrium
This is the process when farmers breed only their best livestock.
artificial selection
The study of similar structures in different species
Structural homology
What idea from Lyell's work influenced Darwin?
The present is the key to the past
This is the least common way for a bacterium to become immune to an antibiotic. Conjugation and transformation are the main ways bacteria become antibiotic-resistant.
mutation
This is the study of fossils
Paleontology
the idea that each individual species on the planet was specially created by God and could never fundamentally change
the immutability of the species
According to Darwin's theory of natural selection, certain individuals will leave more offspring on average than do other individuals. What is their survival due to?
Representatives from every major animal phylum can be found in this rock. A problem for macroevolution, there is not enough time in this era to produce so much evolution, and there are no transitional forms linking one species to another.
Cambrian (era or explosion)
This shows that a species can change in as little as one generation due to selective breeding or other causes of changes to its existing genetic code, and it disproved the "immutability of species".
Microevolution
Preserved remains of once-living organisms
Fossils
Microevolution is a well-documented scientific theory. Only macroevolution is untrue.
The sequence of amino acids in the hemoglobin of a human is determined and compared to the sequence of amino acids in the hemoglobin of a rat and an ape. According to evolutionists, which amino acid sequence should be closer to that of a human's?
the ape's
Of the four basic data sets discussed in this module, which is the only one to NOT provide conclusive evidence AGAINST macroevolution?
The geologic column