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Evolution Test Flashcards

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Spontaneous generation

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Life comes from no living things

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Biogenesis

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Life comes from life

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Redi

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Flies and rotting meat

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Spallanzani

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Boiled broth, sealed flasks

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Pasteur

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Flask with opened curved neck preventing air to come in but still no life being formed

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Miller Urey

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Life came from organic molecules which formed amino acids which leads to protein and life

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Characteristics of first life forms

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Autotrophs
No light, chemosynthesis
Prokaryote

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Two types of autotrophs

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Photo autotrophs - light

Chemo autotrophs - chemicals

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Endosymbiosis

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Large prokaryote combines with small

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Darwin

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Animals have traits that will help them survive not by need

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Lamarck

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Develop needs and wants and pass to offspring

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Natural selection

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Those with good traits will survive

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Why is variation needed

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Species would never evolve, no natural selection

Different animals of same species will be different

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Homologous

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Originated by heredity

Same parts on inside

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Analogous

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Aren’t related
Same purpose
Different insides

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Vestigial

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No function

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Three records proof of evolution

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Fossil
Anatomical
Molecular

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Convergent evolution

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Species evolve similar traits

No common ancestor

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Divergent

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Similar DNA
Homologous structures
Differentiate

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Coevolution

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Species change because of influence of others
To help each other function

Flowers and bees

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Artificial selection

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Humans create

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