In the evolutionary model, mutation ______ genes that will develop a better organism while natural selection ______ genes that will develop a better organism.
Mycoplasma genitalium is well known for the _________ infections it causes.
One advantage associated with viewing RNA as the original site of information storage in the primitive cell is that RNA
“Natural selection is cybernetically blind”. This means that
Which of the following could be a new mutation needed to generate appropriate structures for flight feathers? a mutation that:
Charles Darwin believed that whole new species originated as a result of
The genome of Mycoplasma genitalium is about _______ genes in size.
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.
Which of the following is a basic evolutionary advance needed to convert a down‐like feather into a primary flight feather.
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
Which of the following phrases best evaluates the naturalistic hypothesis for its value in explaining the origins of new structures like the flight feather?
Romans 8 describes modern living organisms as
Both the theist and the naturalist come to the conclusion that most mutations occurring today are harmful because
To a design theorist a beneficial mutation
One feature of Enlightenment Thinking was the tendency to
Natural selection is an “expensive” process. This is true because
One popular evolutionary model for the origin of flight in vertebrates is that flight evolved in
One important value that disruptive selection can have to a natural population is that it
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?
The Design theorist comes to the conclusion that most mutations occurring today are harmful because
The potential power of directional selection cannot be demonstrated in a real population if
Directional selection
Francis Crick’s theory of directed panspermia states that
In physical size, Mycoplasma genitalium is
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?
Sometimes a force within the environment reduces the reproductive ability of one variety of individual in a species compared to that of another variety. This force is termed
Which of the following classes of mutations accumulate silently in the DNA having no obvious effect on one’s ability to reproduce?
One problem associated with evolving a system in which RNA bases code for amino acids is that
Preening behavior enables a bird to continue to fly successfully by
Darwin interpreted his observations of nature to mean that