Honors Biology: Evolution - True / False

According to evolution, people came from monkeys a long time ago.

FALSE. According to evolution, modern monkeys and humans evolved separately long ago from a shared ancestor that was neither monkey nor human.

Evolution is something a person should either believe in, or not believe in.

FALSE. Beliefs are based on faith in some authority. Evolution is not based on faith or authority.

Evolution is a process that includes the origin of life.

FALSE. Biological evolution is about the origin of species (different kinds of life) after life came into existence.

Evolution simply means "change."

FALSE. Biological evolution is only one kind of change.

Evolution means that a single organism can change in order to adapt to its environment.

FALSE. Evolution has nothing to do with whatever changes any individual makes to survive.

Evolution is mainly concerned with the origin of humans.

FALSE. Evolution in general applies to all living (and once living) organisms, not just humans.

A single organism can evolve.

FALSE. Evolution is what happens two groups of organisms over time, not to an individual.

Evolution is a totally random process.

FALSE. Many of variations on which selection work are random, but the selection part of evolution is non-random.

Anyone who accepts evolution as a real process cannot believe in God.

FALSE. Many people who except evolution do believe in God.

Evolution is the same as "Natural Selection."

FALSE. Natural selection is the name for the main mechanism by which evolution takes place.

Evolution is like a chain. Every group of creatures evolves into the next "link" in the chain.

FALSE. This is a very old idea, long ago discredited.

The process we call "evolution" was first introduced and explained by Charles Darwin.

FALSE. Writings about evolution in one form or another were taking place ever since the time of Greek thinkers.

All research in biology assumes that evolution is real.

TRUE

Big dinosaurs were never seen by early humans.

TRUE

Evolution has been tested and challenged many times, but has always been strengthened by the results.

TRUE

Evolution is a process that has happened in the past and is still happening now.

TRUE

Evolution was used to a explain many observations of life that did not fit common beliefs.

TRUE

Most major religions in America say that they have no problem with evolution.

TRUE

Scientists have fossils sequences showing that new groups of animals evolved from earlier groups.

TRUE

The formation of complex structures, like an eye, can now be easily explained by evolution.

TRUE

The fossil record gives scientists a lot of excellent evidence of evolution.

TRUE

There is as much evidence for evolution as there is for our planets orbiting around the Sun.

TRUE

What a species gradually changes into a new species over many generations, scientists call that "evolution".

TRUE

When we say evolution is a theory, we mean it's a real process, totally supported by all the evidence.

TRUE