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BIOL 101 BIOL101 BIOL/101 MODULE 7 QUIZ

Question 1
The third stage of life history implied in the early pages of the Genesis record could best be described as
Question 2
The term _________ represents a predictive theory of how a species might change with time, whereas the term ________ assumes that nature can create whole new structures and organisms.
Question 3
Which stage of life history implied in the early pages of the Genesis record appears least likely to involve any biological change in populations with time?
Question 4
“Natural selection is cybernetically blind”. This means that
Question 5
Natural selection is limited in its effectiveness in preserving new favorable mutations in an environment that
Question 6
The genome of Mycoplasma genitalium is about _______ genes in size.
Question 7
Which of the following organisms were not observed by Charles Darwin while reading and voyaging the world?
Question 8
Which of the following phrases best evaluates the naturalistic hypothesis for its value in explaining the origins of new structures like the flight feather?
Question 9
One problem associated with evolving a system in which RNA bases code for amino acids is that
Question 10
The sentence, “O you, who look on this our machine, do not be sad that with others you are fated to die, but rejoice that our Creator has endowed us with such an excellent instrument as the intellect” was first spoken by
Question 11
Romans 8 describes modern living organisms as
Question 12
During the formation of a feather which of the following structures appears as a result of early induction events within the dermal layer of the wing surface?
Question 13
Stabilizing selection
Question 14
Which of the following is a basic evolutionary advance needed to convert a down-like feather into a primary flight feather.
Question 15
Directional selection has been used to
Question 16
One advantage associated with viewing RNA as the original site of information storage in the primitive cell is that RNA
Question 17
Could RNA have been the original site of information storage in the primitive cell? A difficult problem with this possibility is that
Question 18
In the evolutionary model, mutation ______ genes that will develop a better organism while natural selection ______ genes that will develop a better organism.
Question 19
To a design theorist a beneficial mutation
Question 20
Which of the following is a component structure of a primary flight feather?
Question 21
One popular evolutionary model for the origin of flight in vertebrates is that flight evolved in
Question 22
Charles Darwin believed that whole new species originated as a result of
Question 23
One important value that disruptive selection can have to a natural population is that it
Question 24
To a Darwinist, a beneficial mutation
Question 25
The Design theorist comes to the conclusion that most mutations occurring today are harmful because