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  • The idea that the universe and life are the result of chance and natural processes is called?
    evolution
  • German professor who wrote the Natural History of Plants
    Leonhard Fuchs
  • The belief that the universe is a result of a supernatural act of God.
    Creation
  • What book introduced the idea that man evolved through natural selection?
    Descent of Man
  • What evolutionary idea who the following statement support, "A fish will become a lizard in a few thousand years."
    gradualism
  • Trying to produce living things from common chemicals is trying to prove what evolutionary theory?
    abiogenesis
  • Described plants used for medicinal purposes in Living Pictures of Herbs
    Otto Brunfels
  • What is the belief that only the natural world exists?
    materialism
  • Basic similarity between two different things is called?
    homology
  • Supposedly, a human embryo's tail and what provide evidence for evolution?
    yolk sac
  • The idea that during development embryos resemble the adult forms of their evolutionary ancestors is known as?
    embryonic recapitulation
  • What is the view of life that teaches living things have limited variation within an originally created species (breeds of dogs)?
    orchard view
  • According to the mutation hypothesis, evolution occurs through the natural combination of mutations and what?
    natural selection
  • The image is a diagram of what evolutionary theory?
    tree of life
  • "Evolution occurs slowly" is part of what evolutionary theory?
    gradualism
  • What term refers to a person's foundational assumptions that he uses to understand the world around him?
    worldview
  • Science put to practical use is called?
    technology
  • Who proposed the idea that evolution occurs through natural selection?
    Charles Darwin
  • A sudden, permanent, random change to DNA
    mutation
  • What are "useless" organs left over from evolutionary processes?
    vestigial organs
  • "Living things come from non-living things" is an example of what old Greek belief?
    spontaneous generation
  • Formation of a new organism within a kind?
    speciation
  • "Evolution happens in rapid bursts separated by long periods of time" is an example of what evolutionary theory?
    punctuated equilibrium
  • According to evolutionists, organisms that link humans to apes are called
    transitional forms
  • The study of similarities and differences in organisms' body structures is called?
    comparative anatomy
  • What false idea says that the present is the key to the past?
    Uniformitarianism
  • Which English physician discovered blood circulation?
    William Harvey
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