EVOLUTION FINAL PAPER TESTED
QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED ANSWERS
COMPLETE STUDY SHEET
●● What are 2 commonalities of all life
Answer: -all life possesses RNA/DNA
-all life evolved
●● Evolution= Descent with modification. What does this mean?
Answer: Change in the properties of populations of organisms, or groups
of such populations, over the course of generations
●● Evolutionary biology has applications in what 6 things?
Answer: -health sciences
-agriculture
-natural products
-conservation and environment management
,-understanding ourselves
-Entertainment
●● What are vestigial structures?
Answer: A useless rudimentary version of a body part that has an
important function in other, closely allied, species
●● What did Darwin argue about vestigial structures?
Answer: Argues that vestigial traits are difficult to explain under the
theory of creation, but readily interpretable under the theory of descent
with modification
●● What are some examples of vestigial structures that were talked
about in lecture?
Answer: -human's tiny tailbone (coccyx)
-our arrector pilli muscles on our hair follicles (goosebumps)
●● What is Special Creation?
Answer: -species do not change
-lineage do not split
, -each species is separately created
- each species in independently created
-earth and life are young
●● What is descent with modification?
Answer: -species change over time (microevolution)
-lineages split and diverge (speciation)
-new life forms derive from older life-forms (macroevolution)
-all life forms are related (common ancestry)
-earth and life are old
●● What is microevolution?
Answer: Species are not immutable, but change through time
QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED ANSWERS
COMPLETE STUDY SHEET
●● What are 2 commonalities of all life
Answer: -all life possesses RNA/DNA
-all life evolved
●● Evolution= Descent with modification. What does this mean?
Answer: Change in the properties of populations of organisms, or groups
of such populations, over the course of generations
●● Evolutionary biology has applications in what 6 things?
Answer: -health sciences
-agriculture
-natural products
-conservation and environment management
,-understanding ourselves
-Entertainment
●● What are vestigial structures?
Answer: A useless rudimentary version of a body part that has an
important function in other, closely allied, species
●● What did Darwin argue about vestigial structures?
Answer: Argues that vestigial traits are difficult to explain under the
theory of creation, but readily interpretable under the theory of descent
with modification
●● What are some examples of vestigial structures that were talked
about in lecture?
Answer: -human's tiny tailbone (coccyx)
-our arrector pilli muscles on our hair follicles (goosebumps)
●● What is Special Creation?
Answer: -species do not change
-lineage do not split
, -each species is separately created
- each species in independently created
-earth and life are young
●● What is descent with modification?
Answer: -species change over time (microevolution)
-lineages split and diverge (speciation)
-new life forms derive from older life-forms (macroevolution)
-all life forms are related (common ancestry)
-earth and life are old
●● What is microevolution?
Answer: Species are not immutable, but change through time
