Liberty University BIOL
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Life Is Ultimate Art
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13.1
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Life and Its Diversity: Ultimate Art or Ultimate
Accident?
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Life as Ultimate Art
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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 what great scientist/philosopher?
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Life as Ultimate Accident
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What great observation did
Charles Darwin make from nature as a result of his reading and voyage around
the world?
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List some organisms observed by
Charles Darwin while reading and voyaging the world.
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Charles Darwin’s view of the
species was that populations of a species continually experienced new ____________
and continually became more ____________.
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Charles Darwin believed that
whole new species originated as a result of populations of the same species
reproducing in two distinct, separate ____________ and responding to those ____________
in different ways.
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Complete the following sentence
describing how Darwin interpreted his observations of nature: Individuals
within populations ____________ with each other for limited ____________;
some of these individuals will ____________ better than others.
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List 7 features of
Enlightenment thinking.
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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.
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13.2
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Can Life Originate without Artistry?
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Evolution’s
First Goal: The Smallest Cell
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Compare Mycoplasma genitalium’s physical size with that of E. coli.
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Compare Mycoplasma genitalium’s genome size (number of genes) with that
of E. coli.
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How was Mycoplasma genitalium discovered and
what sorts of infection does it cause in humans?
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Evolution’s
Starting Materials: Small Geochemicals
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Some have speculated that the
origin of life occurred at geothermal vents. What is the problem with the
amino acids formed near these vents?
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Evolution’s
Highest Hurdle: Creating and Storing Information
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Some scholars have viewed RNA
as the original site of information storage in the primitive cell. One
advantage of this view is that RNA can both store ____________ and can act
catalytically like a(n) ____________.
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Could RNA have been the
original site of information storage in the primitive cell? List some
difficulties with this possibility.
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One problem associated with
evolving a system in which RNA bases code for ____________ acids is that the
correct bonding of amino acids to tRNAs requires ____________
catalysis—mature proteins are needed to begin making the first proteins.
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Evolution’s
Final Challenge: Spatial Ordering of Biological Activity
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State
Francis
Crick’s theory of directed panspermia.
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13.3
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Can Life’s Diversity Increase without Artistry?
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The
Gap to Be Bridged: Invention of Novel Complex Structures
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Describe 1 popular evolutionary
model for the origin of flight in vertebrates. Fliers must have evolved from
non-fliers that ____________ and then glided down from ____________.
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List the names of some
component structures of a primary flight feather.
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Given its precise shape, what
is the role of the barbule in the primary flight feather?
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How does preening behavior
enable a bird to continue to fly successfully?
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During the formation of a
feather, a tube-like ____________ appears as a result of early induction
events within the dermal layer of the wing surface.
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What is a basic evolutionary
advance needed to convert a down-like feather into a primary flight feather? The
feather’s ____________ must be ____________ and reshaped to help support the
bird’s weight.
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Bridging
the Gap I: Random Mutations in Primitive Feather Keratinocytes
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What are some new mutations
needed to generate appropriate structures for flight feathers? (A mutation
that matches barbule ____________ to the space ____________ feather barbs.)
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Bridging
the Gap II: Natural Selection in Primitive Feather Keratinocytes
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Distinguish the roles of
mutation and natural selection in developing a better organism. Mutation ____________
the genes, and natural selection ____________ the genes.
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Natural selection is an
“expensive” process. Explain what this means in terms of the lives of the
members of the population in which the selection is occurring.
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In what sort of environmental
situation is natural selection particularly limited in its effectiveness in
preserving new favorable mutations?
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Define the phrase “selection
pressure.”
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“Natural selection is
cybernetically blind.” It does not ____________ the structural hierarchies it
is required to construct.
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Evaluation
of the Naturalistic Hypothesis
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Natural selection is unable to
“see” a new useful biological function while protecting a different existing
function. Is this a fair statement evaluating the naturalistic hypothesis? If
not, what is a better one?
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13.5
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What Is the Product and Value of Evolution?
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Mutations
Harmful, Neutral, and Helpful
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How does the design theorist
arrive at the conclusion that most mutations occurring today are harmful? What
does he or she assume to be true of the living thing in which the mutations
are occurring?
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The naturalist also comes to
the conclusion that most mutations occurring today are harmful because the
naturalist and the theist both assume that by now, the living thing is a
collection of highly inter-related, well “crafted” systems. So, most
mutations occurring today would not contribute to the process of ____________.
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List 3 broad classes of
mutations, each of which affects the evolutionary process differently.
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Which class of mutations
accumulate silently in the DNA, having no obvious effect on one’s ability to
reproduce?
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How would a design theorist
define a beneficial mutation?
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What is a Darwinist’s
definition of a beneficial mutation?
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What
Does Nature Select?
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What does stabilizing selection
do among individuals of a population?
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Which sort of selection can
eliminate rare individuals whose sexuality is intermediate between male and
female?
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Directional selection moves a
population phenotypically in a new ____________.
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Which sort of selection has
been used to generate a small increase in the number of bristles on the
thorax of flies?
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What problem arises when you
desire to see if directional selection could move a population of primitive
organisms toward long-term change?
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What problem arises when you
desire to see if directional selection could move a population of modern,
internally-integrated organisms toward long-term change? (A seemingly good
change in one direction, ____________.)
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Adding
in Revealed Truth
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In the early pages of the Genesis
record, how might the first of three stages of life history best be
described? (Note the three vertical red arrows in Figure 13.63.)
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Of the three stages of life
history implied in the early pages of the Genesis record, which one appears
least likely to involve any biological change in populations with time?
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How might the third stage of
life history implied in the early pages of the Genesis record best be
described?
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What phrase does Romans 8 use
to describe modern living organisms?
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