Question 1
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
Leonardo da Vinci
Answer:
Question 2
Directional selection
moves a population phenotypically in a new direction.
Answer:
Question 3
Preening behavior enables a bird to continue to fly successfully by
repairing feather surface breaks between
Answer: barbules.
Question 4
To a Darwinist, a beneficial mutation
helps its host to leave more competitive offspring.
, Answer:
Question 5
“Natural selection is cybernetically blind”. This means that
it does not comprehend the structural hierarchies it is required to construct.
Answer:
Question 6
Which of the following organisms were not observed by Charles Darwin while reading and
voyaging the world?
Answer: therapod dinosaur remains
Question 7
Romans 8 describes modern living organisms as
Answer: being in bondage to decay.
Question 8
Could RNA have been the original site of information storage in the primitive cell? A
difficult problem with this possibility is that
no conditions exist that favor production of both the sugar and base parts of an
Answer: RNA monomer.
Question 9
Which of the following could be a new mutation needed to generate appropriate structures for