TRU Biology 1210 Exam Study Guide with Complete Solutions
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TRU Biology 1210 Exam Study Guide
with Complete Solutions
Define Evolution - Answer️️ -Evolution refers to the gradual change in
the characteristics of living organisms over successive generations, leading
to the development of new species from ancestral ones.
Special Creation - Answer️�...
TRU Biology 1210 Exam Study Guide
with Complete Solutions
Define Evolution - Answer✔️✔️-Evolution refers to the gradual change in
the characteristics of living organisms over successive generations, leading
to the development of new species from ancestral ones.
Special Creation - Answer✔️✔️-- An incorrect theory for the diversity of
organisms or evolution.
- that life, and specifically the diversity of life forms on Earth, was directly
created by a supernatural force, rather than evolving through natural
processes over time.
The pattern component of the theory of special creation held that: -
Answer✔️✔️-1. All species are independent, in the sense of being unrelated
to each other; 2. Life on Earth is young-perhaps just 6000. years old.
3. Species are immutable, or incapable of change.
Scientific theories usually have two components: - Answer✔️✔️-A pattern
and a process.
What is the pattern component of a scientific theory? - Answer✔️✔️-• The
pattern component is a statement that summarizes a series of observations
about the natural world. The pattern component is about facts—about how
things are in nature.
What is the process component of a scientific theory? - Answer✔️✔️-• The
process component is a mechanism that produces that pattern or set of
observations.
Another name for the Scale of nature is: - Answer✔️✔️-The Great Chain of
Being
The Scale of nature is : - Answer✔️✔️-Another theory, that states - That all
living things and natural phenomena were arranged in a fixed and
hierarchical order, reflecting their perceived level oF complexity, perfection
and closeness to the divine.
- Species were fixed types organized into a sequence bosed on increased
size and complexity.
Typological thinking is: - Answer✔️✔️-Based on the idea that species are
unchanging types and that variations within species are unimportant or
even misleading.
There is a French Biologist called: - Answer✔️✔️-Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck
Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck proposed a formal theory of evolution stating
that: - Answer✔️✔️-Species are not static but change through time
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