Biology Origins Test

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION

(MARK ALL THAT ARE TRUE)

• changes in things that are able to reproduce

• Requires reproduction

• Implies humans are special beings made in God’s image

• Over time less complex organisms give rise to more complex organisms

CHEMICAL EVOLUTION

(MARK ALL THAT ARE TRUE)

• ABIOGENESIS

• Requires reproduction

• Changes in things that need not be capable of reproduction

• Often evolve towards simplicity

Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace came up with this theory

• Natural Selection

• Mutation

• Acquired Characteristcs

• Principle of Common Descent

Which of the following means "genetic changes in a species over time"

• natural selection

• speciation

• evolution

• fitness

Natural selection is known as

• family descent

• survival of the fittest

• convergent evolution

• divergent evolution

Life comes from non-living molecules is known as

• Abiogenesis

• Biogenesis

• Endosymbiosis

Which experiment simulated the early conditions on Earth to produce organic molecules and amino acids?

• Louis Pastuer's Experiment

• The Miller-Urey Experiment

• Darwin's Experiment

• Lamarck's Experiment

Two main aspects of Darwin's theory of evolution:

• Points of Disagreement

• Descent of Evolution

• Descent with Modification

• Natural Selection

Newer forms of organisms are actually the modified descendants of much older, similar organisms;

 All living things descended from a single common ancestor

 

• Natural Selection

• Descent w/Modification

• Evolution

• biogenesis

The environment may cause certain characteristics to become dominant in a population by allowing those organisms with the most suitable traits to survive long enough to reproduce.

• abiogenesis

• Theory of Evolution

• fossil dating

• Natural Selection