Accelerated Expansion - answer universe appears to be expanding at an increasing
rate
Adult Stem Cells - answer Cells present in adult tissues that generate replacements for
nondividing differentiated cells that can be of great therapeutic potential.
amino acid - answer building blocks of protein molecules
Artificial Selection - answer When we choose our DNA traits
base pair - answer building blocks of the DNA double helix, contribute to the folded
structure of DNA and RNA
Big Bang Theory - answer extremely hot, condensed matter exploded, current idea in
today's society, universe expanded and cooled, elementary particles get low enough
energy to form nuclei and atoms, different stages are seen throughout the universe
because this progresses at different rates,
Black Hole - answer
Cambrian explosion - answer evidence in the fossil record of the relatively quick
appearance of most major animal phyla and caused diversity in the organisms
Charles Darwin - answer believes life originated in a warm pond, created Darwinism,
theory of evolution, natural selection, microevolution
Charles Lyell - answer author of Principles of Geology - had uniformitarianism concepts
in it, close friend of Darwin, geologist.
Old Earth Creationist perspective.
Carbon dating - answerused to tell the age of organic materials.
, chromosome - answersingle piece of coiled DNA containing genes, located in cells, X
shaped
cladogram - answerdiagram that shows relations among organisms developing from a
common ancestor
Cloning - answerMaking a genetically identical copy of DNA or of an organism.
There are two kinds - Reproductive and Therapeutic
Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation - answer"temperature" of space, theoretically
left over from the Big Bang, energy coming from black areas of space is consistent with
an object at a very low temperature
DNA - answerdeoxyribonnucleic acid, made up of genes
Dark Energy - answerthe energy that is feeding into the universe to cause it to
expand/accelerate.
Dark Matter - answerMatter that is assumed to be there to make the math of the
universe make sense.
Day-age view - answerSemi-literal reading of Genesis 1&2
Old Earth Creationists.
Hugh Ross
Dolly Sheep - answerFirst successful reproductive cloning of a larger mammal.
Endosymbiosis - answerThere is some large cell and a small cell that is like a
mitochondria
The small cell goes inside the big cell and helps the big cell
enzyme - answerA type of protein that speeds up a chemical reaction in a living thing.
idea that they were originally RNA.
eukaryote - answerA cell that contains a nucleus and membrane bound organelles
Edwin Hubble - answerAmerican astronomer, Doppler shift - observed in the light
spectra from other galaxies increased in proportion to a particular galaxy's distance from
the earth (Hubble's law), objedcts further away from the earth are moving faster than
those closer to the earth, support for an explosion and creation
exoplanet - answera planet outside the solar system
Framework view - answerview of creation in which days are topical, not historical; days
represent a literary structure of paired days.
Theist evoluntionist
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