Chapted 18 Flashcards
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Big Bang model
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The universe began in an instant with a Big Bang
2
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Stanley millers experiment
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Showed that acids form in reaction chambers designed to simulate early earth
3
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Protocell
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Any membrane enclosed sac of molecules that captures energy, concentration in metabolism and replicates itself
4
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RNA world
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A time when RNA both stores genetic information like an enzyme in synthesis
5
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Ribozymes
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Synthetic, self-replacing RNAs
6
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Stromatolites
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The oxygen producing, non-cycilic pathway of photosynthesis began evolving in Cyanobacteria
7
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Endosymbiosis
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The symbiont lives out it’s life inside a host
8
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Astrobiology
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Study of origins, evolution, and persistence of life on earth as it relates to life in the universe
