Abeka 7th Science Quiz 13

What is an originally created type of organism?

• Genetically modified

• Natural

• Hybrid

• Kind

What is a sudden, permanent, random change in an organism's DNA?

• Adaptation
• Mutation
• Recombination
• Transcription

When insects are sprayed with the pesticide DDT, insects that are resistant to DDT are more likely to survive. After several years, the DDT-resistant insects will become predominant. What idea describes this observation?

• Genetic drift
• Mutation theory
• Symbiotic evolution
• Natural selection

Which view of life teaches that the species that exist today are identical to those that God created without any variation?

• Panspermia
• Evolutionary Theory
• Lawn view

• Natural Selection

What term refers to the idea that information cannot occur by chance but must come from an intelligent source?

• Natural Selection
• Specified complexity

• Spontaneous Generation
• Random Mutation

Some people believe the false idea that fish, amphibians, reptiles, and mammals came from a common ancestor. Which of the following terms describes this idea?

• macroevolution

• species divergence
• microevolution

• natural selection

What British philosopher wrote Natural Theology, in which he argued that the design seen in the world demonstrates God's existence?

• William Paley
• Bertrand Russell
• John Stuart Mill
• David Hume

What are the similar five-fingered or five-toed forelimbs of many vertebrate animals an example of?

• Phylogeny

• Adaptive traits
• Homology

• Ethology

Who developed the idea of comparative anatomy?

• Richard Dawkins

• Richard Owen
• Georges Cuvier

• Charles Darwin

What is the study of similarities and differences in the body structure of organisms?

• Morphological biology
• Comparative anatomy
• Structural genetics
• Anatomical physiology