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Chapter 16
The Fossil Record of
Flowering Plants
Objectives of Chapter 16 for Students:
By studying these objectives and knowing this core information, most students
should be able to pass all of the tests.
1. The student should know how many plant species are alive today. (Page 186)
2. The student should know how many flowering plant species are alive today. (Page
186)
3. The student should be able to write out a list of ten examples of flowering plants.
(Pages 186, 188-189)
4. The student should know the scientific term for flowering plants. (Page 186)
5. The student should know what Charles Darwin was referring to when he spoke of the
“abominable mystery” of flowering plants. (Page 186)
6. The student should know the reason Charles Darwin gave for the lack of evidence for
plant evolution in the late 1880’s. (Page 186)
7. The student should know what plant evolution experts were saying in the mid 20th
century about plant evolution (70 years after Darwin referred to the lack of evidence for
the evolution of flowering plants). (Page 186)
8. The student should know how many fossil plants have been collected so far. (Page
186)
9. The student should know how good the current evidence for flowering plant evolution
is, according to The Encyclopedia of Evolution. Which of the two models does the fossil
record of flowering plants match: the theory of evolution (Page 75 of Chapter 6) or the
no-evolution model (Page 76 of Chapter 6)? (Page 186)
10. The student should be able to list ten types of plant structures that have been found as
fossils, starting with the smallest structure found, such as fossil pollen, and ending with
the largest structure found, such as a fossilized whole tree. (Page 186).
11. The student should be able to give the reason why, according to scientists who
support evolution, the intermediate plants demonstrating flowering plant evolution have
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not been found. (Page 186)
12. The student should be able to give the reason why, according to scientists who
oppose evolution, the intermediate plants demonstrating flowering plant evolution have
not been found. (Page 186)
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