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What can selective pressure lead to?

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Genetic changes (sometimes punctuated equilibrium)

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What is hybridization?

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Process of an animal/plant breeding with another species

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What is a theory?

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A well-supported explanation of the natural world based upon observation and experimentation

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How do hypotheses work?

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They have a base, and experiments are made to disprove them. If they can’t be disproven, they turn into theories

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What are theories used for?

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Explain known phenomena and predict new events

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What has to be done if a theory no longer functions to explain known phenomena?

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It needs to be changed or modified

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What is a population?

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A group of organisms of the same species

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What is a species?

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A group of organisms that are capable of interbreeding (with exceptions)

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What are some examples of exceptions to the definition of a species?

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Baltimore Oriole and Bullocks Oriole

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What is fitness?

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A measure of an organism’s ability to survive and reproduce in an environment

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What is a way we measure evolution?

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Fitness

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Evolution doesn’t always lead to…

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Speciation

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What is a genetic drift?

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A change in the frequency of a gene within a population due to mutation

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What is a genetic flow?

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A change in the frequency of a gene within a population due to migration

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What is an example of genetic flow?

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Fox squirrels

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What is pre-zygotic isolation?

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When sperm can’t fertilize the egg

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What is post-zygotic isolation?

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When hybrid species are made, but they’re sterile (can’t reproduce)

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What is a cline?

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A gradual change of a character or feature in a species over a geographical area

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What does cline lead to?

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Speciation

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What is allopatric speciation?

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Occurs when 2 populations are living in separate environments and therefore there is no gene flow. They will differentiate to the point where they are distinct species

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What is sympatric speciation?

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When 2 members of a species become reproductively isolated and diverge without physical separation

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What is natural selection?

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Process when favorable traits become more common and unfavorable traits become less common

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What is inter specific competition?

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Competition between individuals of different species

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What is intraspecific competition?

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Competition between individuals of same species

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What are the 4 elements that evolution by natural selection can be thought of?

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Variation, Inheritance, Selection, and Time

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What causes variation?

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Mutations, sexual reproduction, and migration

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What are mutations caused by?

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Random changes in the DNA

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Are mutations considered good or bad most of the time?

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Bad because they usually hinder an organism’s chances at survival

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What happens during sexual reproduction?

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Existing DNA is rearranged

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What happens during migration?

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Genes entering or leaving a population

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How does inheritance happen?

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Traits are passed down from parents to offspring

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What is punctuated equilibrium?

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Populations show little change for most of their geological history, but when phenotype evolution does occur, it is in rare and rapid events of branching speciation

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Individuals that are best suited for the environment will…

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Survive and reproduce more

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What does punctuated equilibrium lead to?

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Branching speciation (cladogenesis)

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What is an allele?

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One or two or more alternative forms of a gene that arise by mutation

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Speciation is the result of _________, but evolution doesn’t always result in __________

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Evolution, speciation

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What are antibiotics?

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Drugs that inhibit or abolish the growth of micro-organisms such as bacteria, fungi, or protozoans

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What was the term antibiotic originally used to refer to?

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Any agent with biological activity against living organisms

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What is the term antibiotic used to refer to now?

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Substances with anti-bacterial, anti-fungi, or anti-parasitical activity

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What causes death of living tissue?

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Anthrax

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What are some misuses of antibiotics?

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Incomplete treatment and over-prescribing antibiotics, especially for viral infections

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Antibiotic resistance may be due to things like…

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Increasing use of antibacterial soap

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43
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What do viruses spread by?

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Arisols

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What is science?

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The body of knowledge that exists about the world and the method used to obtain that knowledge

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What is a phenomenon?

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A fact, occurrence, or circumstance observed

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What is data?

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Facts and observations gathered and recorded about a problem

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What is an experiment?

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An organized, purposeful test in which certain conditions are changed

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What is a controlled experiment?

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When testing a single hypothesis only one variable is allowed to change (experimental variable) and all other factors are held constant (control)

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The experimental value…

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Changes

50
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The controlled variable…

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Stays the same

51
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What is a hypothesis?

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A possible explanation of a phenomenon or solution to a problem, based upon observations made and facts gathered

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What do hypotheses have to be?

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Testable and falsifiable

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How are hypotheses often written?

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As an if/then statement

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What is a theory?

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A logical explanation of a natural event, based on the results of experiments and observations

55
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Theories must be able to…

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Explain known phenomena and predict new events

56
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What is a law?

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A statement that describes a natural phenomenon; a principle

57
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What is the scientific method?

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A logical method that utilizes a series of steps to investigate a problem or phenomenon

58
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What are observations obtained from?

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A particular pattern or natural phenomenon (known facts are gathered)

59
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What is data?

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Information that scientists gather that may lead to a solution. It comes from observations and known facts

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What is a conclusion?

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Statement made about hypothesis based on the results of the experiment (addresses problem and accuracy of hypothesis)

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How can a theory be formulated?

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Over time and with repeated testing

62
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Theories must be changed or rejected when…

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They are contradicted by experimentation

63
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Scientific theory is…

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Not an opinion, it is based on the results of many experiments conducted by different scientists throughout the world

64
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What is biology?

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The study of life and living things

65
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Name the first characteristic all organisms share

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Use energy for life processes (metabolism)

66
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Name the second characteristic organisms share?

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Made up of one or more cells (basic unit of life)

67
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Name the third characteristic that all organisms share?

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Typically have a definite form and limited size

68
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Name the fourth characteristic all organisms share?

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Have a limited life span

69
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Name the fifth characteristic all organisms share

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They can grow

70
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Name the sixth characteristic all organisms share

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Respond to changes in their environment

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Name the seventh characteristic all organisms share?

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Able to reproduce

72
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Name the last characteristic all organisms share

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Able to carry out life processes in order to create a stable inherent environment that promotes life (homeostasis)

73
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A life process is when…

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Organisms take in materials from external environment and change them into forms useful to life

74
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What are nutrients?

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Substances organisms need to live

75
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What is ingestion?

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Taking in food from the environment

76
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What is digestion?

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The breakdown of complex food materials into simpler, usable forms

77
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Define the life process of transporting

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When organisms control the movement in and out of cells (circulatory system)

78
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Define the life process respiration

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When chemical energy from nutrients that are needed in life is released (done through mitochondria)

79
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Define the life process synthesis

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When organisms combine simple substances to form complex substances (usually employs products of digestion)

80
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Define the life process assimilation

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When organisms incorporate materials into their bodies, making them part of their structure

81
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What is a result of assimilation?

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An increase in the size of an organism; growth

82
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Growth often follows…

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A particular pattern and may have defined limits

83
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Define the life process excretion

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When organisms remove waste materials, the products of chemical reactions, from their bodies

84
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Define the life process homeostasis

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When organisms incorporate many regulatory processes to capacitate stability while adjusting to conditions

85
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What are some systems we have to carry out homeostasis?

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Digestive endocrine, excretory, nervous, and transport systems

86
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Define the life process reproduction

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When organisms produce new organisms of their own kind

87
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Define the life process metabolism

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When organisms build and break down complex substances and release energy by series of chemical reactions

88
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How thick is the crust under the continents?

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40 km thick

89
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What are planets formed by?

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Gravitational collapse

90
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What was the earth formed as?

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A rocky, sterile ball with a lot of minerals

91
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Violent volcanism lead to the formation of…

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An atmosphere

92
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What formed the seas?

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Condensation of water vapor

93
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Organic molecules were…

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Synthesized from atmospheric gases (violent electrical storms)

94
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What happened 4 billion years ago?

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The first living things appeared in the oceans

95
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Water protected early life from what?

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Deadly UV radiations

96
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What contributed to the oxygen in the atmosphere?

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Photosynthesis by early organisms

97
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Where did the ozone layer form?

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In the upper atmosphere

98
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The ozone layer…

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Blocked out most of the ultra violent radiation

99
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What was deadly to early life and mutagenic even today?

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Ultra violent radiation

100
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Life spread to…

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Shallow, coastal waters and eventually to dry land

101
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Early life included what?

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Bacteria

102
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The Earth’s crust floats on what?

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A semi-fluid mantle which is heated by the core

103
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Mantle currents are formed by…

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The heating and cooling of flowing mantle material

104
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Convection current-circulation is caused when…

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Heated, less dense material rises and is displaced by cooler, denser material

105
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Mantle material _____ to the crust and _______ to the sides. Mantle material _____ and ____ to the interior

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Rises, expands. Cools, sinks

106
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What is the continental crust made out of?

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Granite

107
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What breaks apart organic molecules?

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UV radiation

108
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What is an example of artificial selection?

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Heike crabs

109
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What did humans do to plants and animals to domesticate them?

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Artificially selected

110
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How was the first nucleus formed?

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Infolding of plasma membrane formed a double membrane

111
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Why do we need plants more than they need us?

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There is carbon dioxide without us, but there is no oxygen without plants

112
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What would aliens most likely be?

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Bacteria because it is the simplest form of life

113
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What type of blood cells have a nucleus?

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White blood cells

114
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What replaces thiamine in RNA?

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Uracil

115
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What protects DNA on a nuclear level?

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Sugar phosphate backbone

116
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What unwinds the DNA double helix?

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Helicase, an enzyme

117
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What does ATP do?

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Transfer electrons and allow bonds to form

118
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What does the BT gene do to crops?

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Protects them from parasites. Crops that have this gene are genetically modified

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