Lifepac Science Grade 10 Unit 1

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The first human taxonomist was

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Adam

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The Bible gives us the concepts leading to the development of sciences such as ___________ and _________.

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genetics and taxonomy

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When grouping and identifying living things, the classification is based on ________ and ________.

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similarities and differences

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Moses wrote down the concepts that led to the development of scientific tools with the authority and inspiration of __________.

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The Holy Spirit

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Define "after it's kind".

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It simply means that animals reproduce similar offspring; thus, reproducing after it's kind

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Did the ancient people classify plants and animals by use?

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yes

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What did Aristotle contribute to taxonomy?

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The classification of plants into 3 groups; herbs, shrubs, trees

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What did Theophrastos contribute to taxonomy?

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He wrote about 500 different types of plants and classified into 4 groups; herbs, shrubs, subshrubs, trees

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What is one difference between the ways Aristotle and Theophrastos classified plants?

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Theophrastos noted differences in plant tissues and differences between flowering and non-flowering plants

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What was one problem of early books on taxonomy?

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They were often copied off of earlier writings, thus creating many errors

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For what were the herbalists known?

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For making up information about a plant if they couldn't find any.

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How did Cordus differ from early writers?

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He used first hand observation to write his books.

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The Swedish botanist who made the greatest contributions to taxonomy was _____________ who is known as the "______________".

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Carolus Linnaeus and he is known as the "father of modern taxonomy".

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What were two of Linnaeus' contributions?

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The system of Linnaeus and the fixity of species

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What are two of Linnaeus' most important writings?

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Species Plantarum, and Systema Naturae

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What was the feature most significant to plant classification in the Linnaeus system?

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The use of two names together in identifying an organism

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How did Linnaeus' concepts of kinds differ from ours today?

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His concept did not permit variation or change at all. Also, the definition of species today is not the same as the one in Linnaeus' day.

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population

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all organisms of a kind in an area

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fixity of species

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a group of organisms that are capable of reproducing more of that group

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genetics

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the science of heredity (inheritance)

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Ways of grouping plants and animals in ancient times might be by _______________ and _______________.

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usefulness and harmfulness

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One of the Greek taxonomists who grouped animals by blood color and plants by size and shape was ___________.

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Aristotle

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Egyptians of Moses' day taught that snakes came from ___________.

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horse hair and flies

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An herbalist might use an interpretation known as ___________ to suggest a plant's use for medicinal remedies by its shape

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doctrine of signatures

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Two important developments of the Renaissance were ___________ and _________>

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reading books and navigation

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classification groupings today are made on the basis of how organisms are ______ and _______/

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similar and different

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When did scientists begin to study and observe real plants and animals?

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the Renaissance

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Aristotle

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herbs, shrubs, trees;red and non-red blood

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Theophrastos

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herbs, shrubs, subshrubs, trees; flowering and non-flowering plants

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Pliny

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medical and agricultural plants with fables

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Dioscorides

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medical plant lore

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Ibna-Sina

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Persian doctor; Canon of Medicine

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Herbalists

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herbal-a book on medical classification and identification of plants

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Cordus

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one of the first Renaissance scientists to use first-hand observations to write about plants

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Bauhin

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plant register; Pinax; used groupings and a form of scientific names

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Ray

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grouped plants on similarities; idea of species

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Linnaeus

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two-word, scientific names; Species plantarum

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What were Linnaeus' contributions to taxonomy?

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Binomial systems, easier classification, number of stamens per flower, system of Linnaeus, and his theory on the fixity of species

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What was the difference between the study of taxonomy in Rome and Greece?

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Rome preferred power over knowledge

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The language of taxonomy is usually

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latin

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Humans differ from all other life forms by possessing a

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soul

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Rules for naming plants and animals are found in the

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International code of Nomenclature

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Information that depends more on the scientist's feelings and thoughts than on actual observations is said to be

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subjective

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Problems in developing a new and better system include ____________, ____________, ____________, and _______________.

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complexity of classifying, limitations of knowledge, limitations of personal experience, and lack of firsthand information

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One of the needs of today's taxonomy is

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more information

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taxonomy is _____.

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a very old science

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A group of organisms which has been reclassified is

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the English sparrow

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The binomial nomenclature is credited to

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Linnaeus

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species

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reproductive isolation and morphology

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kingdom

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plants or animals

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common name

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sparrow

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kind

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a group of organisms capable of producing organisms of the same group

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taxa

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phylum, class, order, etc.

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Groups of similar organisms within a species are called

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subspecies or varieties

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The first word of the scientific name is underline and capitalized, functions as a ______ and tells the _________.

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functions as a noun and tells the genus of the organism

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The way a plant looks is its _____

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morphology

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A number of similar families make up an

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order

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Organisms that can interbreed and produce offspring that can grow to produce young are of the same _____.

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species

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The separation of species due to some type of barrier to produce young for more than one generation is ________________.

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Reproductive isolation

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The second-largest taxon is called a ________ when categorizing plants and a _________ when categorizing animals.

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division for plants and phylum for animals

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Give the same taxa in order: (rap first letters of names)

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Kingdom, Division or Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species

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Two problems in developing a new and better system of classification are

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Limitations of experience, limitations of knowledge

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What characteristic does animals and plants both share?

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life

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Classification systems have from ____ to _____ kingdoms depending on the taxonomist

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2 to 6

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An effective system of taxonomy should be _______________________.

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detailed but usable

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The smallest plant division is

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Ginkophyta

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The largest plant division is

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anthropoda

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What phylum are humans a part of?

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chordata

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the largest animal phylum is

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arthropoda

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Are there more or less animal species than plant species?

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more

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is species the smallest unit of classification?

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yes

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taxon

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category

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Porifera

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sponges

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does a common name have popular usage?

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yes

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order

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groups of families

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True or false; To a taxonomist a plant is the sum total of all its characteristics

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true

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Classification systems

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vary with the taxonomists

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When a species is made up of different smaller groups, each of those smaller groups is known as a

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variety

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A tool used in classification

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key

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A list of choices that follows in a sequence for identification is a

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key

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When there are 2 choices for each level of the sequence for identification, that classifying tool is called a

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dichotomous key

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When any classification tool has a set of different choices about the same subject, such as the leaf shape is round or the leaf shape is heart-shaped, the choices are said to be

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parallel

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In the animal key, the scientific name for the leopard frog is

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Rana pibiens

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The Latin ending for family is usually __________ for plants and _______ for animals

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-aceae for plants and -ae for animals

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Objectivity

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without bias

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What is one overlooked benefit of a natural system?

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It would create many new descriptions and new information on plants and animals

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Artificial system of taxonomy

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A classification plan based on grouping by certian outstanding features of a plant or animal

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Natural system of taxonomy

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A classification plan based on relationships of common ancestry or evolution

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2 sciences which have helped to show and develop variations of kinds of living things are __________, and ________.

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plant breeding and animal husbandry

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If the theory of evolution were true, there would be records of observable changes of

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one kind of plant or animal into some other kind

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creation

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Basic lifeforms were created by the direct act of God and continue to reproduce their kinds within limits of variation to produce life as we see it today

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evolution

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all life on earth developed from nonliving matter by natural processes

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5 differences between creation and evolution as theories of origin:

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Method, time, order, continuity, purpose

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plant breeding

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new varieties of roses

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animal husbandry

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new varieties of chickens

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origin

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beginnings

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philosphy

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why people think the way they do

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Herbalists contributed

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medicinal uses of plants

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A diagram showing variations of life developing from creation would appear as a

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forest

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A diagram showing variations and speciation of life developing from evolution would appear as a

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tree

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Classifying by using flower color, leaf shape, and leaf arrangement sre examples of an ___________ system of classification

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artificial system of classification

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According to today's _________ system of classification, any characteristic may provide clues to relationships among living things

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natural

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The idea that one species can give rise to new kinds of species, new genera, new families, orders, classes, kingdoms is known as ____________>

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speciation

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"Basic kinds of lifeforms were created" is a definition of

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creation

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"Basic kinds of life forms happened to arise from nonliving matter" is a definition of

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evolution

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What are two differences between creation and evolution in terms of time?

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evolution was billions of years ago, creation was 1,000 years ago. Evolution took one million years for each step, creation took 6 days