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textbook life by design , by Detwiler Mitchell, Reichenback
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BIOL 101

STUDY GUIDE – QUIZ 13
Tasks:

Resources:

Quiz Preparation
Tasks:

Life by Design

Text
1

Describe Leonardo da Vinci’s view of living
things and their source or origin.
List some observations Charles Darwin made
while reading and voyaging the world.

Contrast the terms “microevolution” and
“macroevolution”

Explain how Darwin interpreted the observations
he made

Describe Charles Darwin’s view of the species
and how whole species originated.

List some Features of Enlightenment Thinking

Describe the physical size, genome size and
medical importance of Mycoplasma genitalium

Explain how the same sequence of DNA can be
used to code for two different proteins.

Explain how M. genitalium can adhere to a
variety of different human host surfaces.

Compare alleged early earth atmospheric gases
as proposed by Miller and Urey and as
discovered on planet Venus

Ch 13.1
“Life as
Ultimate
Art”, text
Ch 13.1
“Life as
Ultimate
Accident”
, text +
Figures
Ch 13.1
“Life as
Ultimate
Accident”
, text +
Figures
Ch 13.1
“Life as
Ultimate
Accident”
, first
Table
Ch 13.1
“Life as
Ultimate
Accident”
, text +
Figures
Ch 13.1
“Life as
Ultimate
Accident”
, second
Table
Ch 13.2,
“Evolutio
n’s First
Goal…”
early text
+ Figures
Ch 13.2,
“Evolutio
n’s First
Goal…”
later text
+ Figures
Ch 13.2,
“Evolutio
n’s First
Goal…”
late text +
Figures
Ch 13.2
“Evolutio
n’s
Starting…
.” early
text +
Table.

“Reading &
Study” in
module/week:
Blackboard
Course Site
Presentation

Other Online Sites

Video/URL**
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=J9xUL5Yi_8M&list=PL2254DD3E7B28C572 (love this video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03YKT7ytJdE (“evolution” here
refers to what we call micro-evolution.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZsrTID2mCs (much info on a new
satellite hoped to reveal more regarding Venus’ atmosphere.)

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BIOL 101
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Explain the major problem facing origin of life
speculations that involve geothermal vent
substances.

List the advantages and problems associated with
viewing RNA as the original site of information
storage in the primitive cell.

Describe the problems associated with
originating a system in which RNA bases code
for amino acids.

Restate the problem early cells would have had
in spatially placing protein products of genes so
that they function adequately within the cell.

Restate Francis Crick’s theory of directed
panspermia and explain why he developed this
theory.

Describe an evolutionary model for the origin of
flight in vertebrates.

Review the component structures and their roles
in the primary flight feather.

Explain the necessity of preening behavior to the
continued ability to fly successfully.

Describe how keratin protein optimally supports
feather structure and ultimately flight.

Review the series of structures that appear during
the formation of a primary flight feather.

Describe the series of events in feather
development that results in the generation of
barbs and barbules.
List five basic evolutionary advances needed to
convert a down-like feather into a primary flight
feather.
Describe the sort of mutational changes
necessary in feather regulatory gene DNA in
order to evolve working flight feathers.

Ch 13.2
“Evolutio
n’s
Starting…
.” late text
+ Figures.
Ch 13.2
“Evolutio
n’s
Highest…
” early
text +
Figures
Ch 13.2
“Evolutio
n’s
Highest…
” later
text +
Figure
Ch 13.2
“Evolutio
n’s
Final…”
early text
+ Figures
Ch 13.2
“Evolutio
n’s
Final…”
early text
+ Figure
Ch 13.3,
“The Gap
to Be…”
early text
+ Figures
Ch 13.3,
“The Gap
to Be…”
later text
+ Figures
Ch 13.3,
“The Gap
to Be…”
later text
+ Figure
Ch 13.3,
“The Gap
to Be…”
later text
+ Figure
Ch 13.3,
“The Gap
to Be…”
later text
+ Figure
Ch 13.3,
“The Gap
to Be…”
later text
+ Figure
Ch 13.3,
“The Gap
to Be…”
later text
+ Figure
Ch 13.3,
“Bridging
the Gap I:
….”
early text
+ Figure

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XotF9fzo4Vo (nice intro to what a
geothermal vent is like)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFHtVRKoaUM (ditto)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLeWh8Df3k8 (first 2.0 minutes)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ewg9kIG_8Ek (start at 1:19:00,
listen to 1:23:10)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2h_z-jgovug (this gentleman restates
Crick’s theory and adds some ideas of his own. (He’s wrong on “junk
DNA”)).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=L6kViYeDcmA&list=PL247Ji4StZuLHgtN0-xGGoZFeVEEUXJ_S
(an evolutionary story that connects fossils in a sequence, but does not
explain how mutations produced a feather.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FNfM0AD4xk (primary flight
feather structure is covered at about 1.0 minute)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lhU-4NT3hs (view at about 3.0
minutes)

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Explain why mutational events are unlikely to
create new DNA sequences that now perform a
new needed function.

List a few research studies in which fruitless
searches for new genetic information were made.

List some new mutations needed to generate
appropriate structuring for flight feathers.

Distinguish the roles that mutation and natural
selection play in the evolutionary process.

List and describe several features of natural
selection that limit its effectiveness in preserving
new favorable mutations.

Explain what is meant by saying that natural
selection is an “expensive” process.

Define the phrase “selection pressure” and
explain the significance of variations in that
pressure.

Describe the potential effect of environmental
change on the process of natural selection.

Explain the meaning of the phrase: “natural
selection is cybernetically blind”.

Evaluate the naturalistic hypothesis for its value
in explaining the origins of new structures like
the flight feather.

Ch 13.3,
“Bridging
the Gap I:
….” later
text +
Figure
Ch 13.3,
“Bridging
the Gap I:
….” later
text +
Figure
Ch 13.3,
“Bridging
the Gap I:
….” late
text +
Figure
Ch 13.3,
“Bridging
the Gap
II: ….”
early text
Ch 13.3,
“Bridging
the Gap
II: ….”
text +
Figures
Ch 13.3,
“Bridging
the Gap
II: ….”
text +
Figures
Ch 13.3,
“Bridging
the Gap
II: ….”
later text
+ Figures
Ch 13.3,
“Bridging
the Gap
II: ….”
late text +
Figures
Ch 13.3,
“Bridging
the Gap
II: ….”
late text +
Figures
Ch 13.3,
“Evaluati
on of the
….” text

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fvhk4H-3Z5g (loved it!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ewg9kIG_8Ek (17:00 through 23:00)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_P5YFVU6q4 (start at 34:25, run to
42:46

** Most videos can be found at: http://www.youtube.com/user/DrCharlesDetwiler in the Play List under their appropriate textbook chapter.

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BIOL 101

STUDY GUIDE – QUIZ 14
Tasks:

Resources:
Quiz Preparation
Tasks:

Life by Design

Text
1

Define the phrases “sedimentary rock” and
“index fossils”.

Explain the meaning of the phrase “Cambrian
Explosion”.

Explain the largest problem associated with
evolving insects from sponges during a 5 million
year time period.

Describe how evolutionists have explained the
apparent Cambrian explosion.

Distinguish organs that are analogous to each
other from organs that are homologous to each
other.

Explain the meaning of the term “homologous”
in the context of Darwin’s theory.

Describe the structure and function of a
homeobox gene and its gene product.

Explain what controls whether a homeobox gene
is transcribed or not.

Describe the distribution of homeobox genes in
the living world.

Explain the challenge natural selection faces in
creating a limb for an organism.

Ch 13.4,
“The
Cambrian
Explosion
” early
text
Ch 13.4,
“The
Cambrian
Explosion
” later
text
Ch 13.4,
“The
Cambrian
Explosion
” late text
+ Table
Ch 13.4,
“The
Cambrian
Explosion
” late text
Ch 13.4,
“The
Evidence
for
Hom…..”
early text
+ Figures
Ch 13.4,
“The
Evidence
for
Hom…..”
early text
+ Figures
Ch 13.4,
“The
Evidence
for
Hom…..”
later text
+ Figures
Ch 13.4,
“The
Evidence
for
Hom…..”
later text
+ Figures
Ch 13.4,
“The
Evidence
for
Hom…..”
later text
+ Figures
Ch 13.4,
“The
Evidence

“Reading &
Study” in
module/week:
Blackboard
Course Site
Presentation

Other Online Sites

Video/URL**

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqQbqpima-c (Meyer)

A Visit with Louis Agassiz

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKPSgFrIEU&list=PLR8eQzfCOiS2RPQAPifs6t__mIAqITpYy (natural selection
gets little help from mutation.)

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BIOL 101

Review the problem that the Cambrian explosion
creates for the evolution of homeobox genes and
the developmental pathways they specify.

List the sorts of mutational changes required to
evolve a vertebrate fin or arm from a primitive
leg.

Describe how both the theist and the naturalist
come to the conclusion that most mutations
occurring today are harmful.

List three classes of mutations and describe the
effect each class has on the evolutionary process.

Give two possible definitions for a beneficial
mutation.

Define the phrase stabilizing selection and
describe its role in relation to mutations
occurring in a natural population.

Explain one important value that disruptive
selection can have to a natural population.

Define directional selection and explain the
effect it has on the distribution of phenotypes in
a given population.

Explain how a prolonged process of directional
selection results in population weakness and
sterility.

State a major limitation in all real natural
populations that prevents the potential power of
directional selection from being demonstrated.

List three stages of life history implied in the
early pages of the Genesis record.

for
Hom…..”
later text
+ Figures
Ch 13.4,
“The
Evidence
for
Hom…..”
later text
+ Figures
Ch 13.4,
“The
Evidence
for
Hom…..”
later text
+ Figures
Ch 13.5,
“Mutation
s
Harm…”
early text
+ Figure
Ch 13.5,
“Mutation
s
Harm…”
later text
+ Figure
Ch 13.5,
“Mutation
s
Harm…”
later text
+ Figure
Ch 13.5,
“What
Does
Nature
Select?”
early text
+ Figure
Ch 13.5,
“What
Does
Nature
Select?”
later text
+ Figure
Ch 13.5,
“What
Does
Nature
Select?”
later text
+ Figure
Ch 13.5,
“What
Does
Nature
Select?”
later text
+ Figure
Ch 13.5,
“What
Does
Nature
Select?”
later text
+ Figure
Ch 13.5,
“Adding
in….”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkE0SjtQ4rU (The creators of this
video deal well with the major limitation in real populations; they then
give credit to “Allah”. This disappoints me, but their observations
remain valuable nonetheless….

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22

Explain how Romans 8 and naturalistic evolution
differ in their view of the adaptation of living
things as we go forward in time.
Explain why stabilizing selection is unable to
completely prevent genomic decline in modern
populations.
Describe how speciation can be a deteriorative
process rather than a creative one.

early text
+ Figure
Ch 13.5,
“Adding
in….”
early text
+ Figure
Ch 13.5,
“Adding
in….”
later text
+ Figure
Ch 13.5,
“Adding
in….” late
text +
Figure

** Most videos can be found at: http://www.youtube.com/user/DrCharlesDetwiler in the Play List under their appropriate textbook chapter.

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