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Phylum for Sponges

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P. Porifera

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Phylum for Jellyfish

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P. Cnidaria

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Phylum for Round Worms

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P. Nematoda

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Phylum for Flat Worms

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P. Platyhelminthes

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Phylum for Segmented Worms (Leeches, earthworms)

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P. Annelida

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Phylum for Insects, Crustaceans, Arachnids

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P. Arthropoda

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Phylum for Starfish and Sea Urchins

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P. Echinodermata

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Phylum for Vertebrates

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P. Chordata

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Phylum for Gastropods (Octopus/Squid)

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P. Mollusca

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Who was Lamarck?

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Scientist in France in late 1700s who coined the term “Biology”.

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What is Lamarckism? Give an example.

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The idea that living organisms acquire certain traits during their lifetime and pass on those traits to their offspring.

For example, Giraffes stretching their necks to reach food in trees, causing longer necks to evolve. Each generation would inherit a longer neck from their parents.

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What is Cytochrome C and where is it found?

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an electron transport carrier to produce ATP.

Found in mitochondria and chloroplasts.

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Evolutionary Process according to Lamarck (2)

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  1. Need causes enlargement of an organ, or lack of need causes decrease in organ size.
  2. The acquired characteristic is passed on to the next generation.
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Coprolite

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A piece of fossilised dung.

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Methylation

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Adding methyl group to DNA.

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Evidence for the Rejected of Lamarckism

Sheep Herders

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Sheep herders have been cutting off the tails of sheep for thousands of years, yet new born sheep almost always have tails.

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Who was Charles Darwin?

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A British Naturalist who developed the idea of Natural Selection.

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What ship brought Charles Darwin to the Galapagos Islands?

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The Beagle

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What living organism did Darwin study at the Galapagos Islands?

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Finches (stout, pointy, long beaks)

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Four Steps of Natural Selection (HSNF)

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  1. High production leads to more organisms being born than can be supported by the ecosystem.
  2. A struggle for survival results (Food sources, Territory, intra specific competition).
  3. Nature selects which individuals will survive
  4. The fittest survive and pass their genes on to future generations.
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Factors Affecting Natural Selection

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Avoiding Predators
Food Sources
Immunity to diseases
Inter-specific competition (territories)
Intra-specific competition (food/resources)
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Artificial Selection

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When animals with desirable genetical traits are picked to reproduce, bringing the genetical trait into the herd.

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Atrophy

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Web a characteristic disappears over time.

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Turkana

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Lake in Kenya containing human fossils.

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Who was Kettlewell, and what was his experiment?

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Kettlewell was a scientist who worked with peppered moths.

  1. Lichen
  2. Grows on the trees, producing glucose (Darker moths dying off since they’re visible).
  3. Pollution caused lichen to die
  4. Trees became darker (Lighter moths died, and darker moths population grew.)
  5. Lighter moths died.

CONCLUSION: Darker moths were twice as likely to survive in the polluted forest.

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Macroevolution

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Changes from one species to another

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Microevolution

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Changes within a species

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Palaeontology

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The study of fossils.

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Examples of fossilised creatures

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Mammoths in ice
Insects in amber
Bones in rock

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What did Mary Leaky discover?

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Found the fossil footprints in Laetoli, Tanzania.

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How are fossils formed?

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When sediment deposition buries dead bodies and the body remains undergo preservation by mineralization.

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What do fossils show? (2)

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  1. Change over time

2. Continuity of change.

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Process of Fossilisation (4)

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  1. Organism dies and is buried in sediment
  2. Decomposition of remains
  3. Remains replaced by minerals in surrounding sediment
  4. Solidification of sediments leaves a cast of the organism.
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Burgess Shale contains lots of ____ _______

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Oil Reserves

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More than __% of all animals that ever lived are extinct.

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90

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What is a commit?

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A water/ice ball going through space, no atmosphere, where solar radiation melts the ice creating a trail.

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Examples of Major Extinction Events

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  1. Super Volcanic Eruption (Yellowstone National Park)

2. Asteroid extincting dinosaurs.

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The atmosphere consists of __% Nitrogen and __% CO2

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78 and 0.04

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What is the half life of Carbon-14?

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5,730 years

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Carbon-14 Dating Process

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  1. N bombards C with neutrons.
  2. Protons are ejected, and the neutrons take its place in N.
  3. Animals eat plants with C-14.
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In Carbon-14 Dating, Carbon 14 undergoes a ___ ____

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Beta emission

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Beta Emission

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When an electron comes out of the nucleus.

43
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Tritium (H3)

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An isotope of Hydrogen that is used in nuclear power plants.

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H1 =
H2 =
H3 =

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Hydrogen
Deuterium
Tritium

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Half Life of Tritium

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12 years

46
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Beta Emission Formula for Carbon-14

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14 14
C –> N + e-
6 7

6p + 7n +pe- —-> 7p + 7n + e-
n = pe-

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Phylum of Egg-Laying mammals

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Monotremes

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Why are monotremes only present in Australia?

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Because of geographical isolation

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Homology

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Organisms in different vertebrate classes have similar anatomical structures, showing common ancestry.

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Spontaneous Generation

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The belief that life could appear in non-living materials.

51
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___-__ codons of the genetic code have the same meanings in the cells of all organisms.

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Sixty-Four

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(Louis) Pasteur’s Experiment

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  1. Samples of broth were placed in Swan-Necked flasks, and the necks were melted and bent into various shapes.
  2. Some broth boiled, some not.
  3. Fungi and organisms appeared in non-boiled, but not boiled flasks.
  4. Necks where snapped, and the broth was quickly decomposed by organisms.

ALL FLASKS WERE EXPOSED TO AIR AS IT WAS SUGGESTED THAT IT WAS NEEDED FOR SPONTANEOUS GENERATION

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Conclusion of Pasteur’s Experiment

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Conclusion: Swan necks prevented organisms from the air getting into the flasks and no organisms appeared spontaneously.

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Symbiosis

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Two organisms living together

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Endosymbiosis

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A larger, host cell takes in a smaller cell by endocytosis, so the smaller cell is inside a vesicle in the cytoplasm of the larger cell.

This smaller cell isn’t digested, and divides within the larger cell.

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Characteristics of Mitochondria and Chloroplasts (GRND)

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  1. Grow and divide like cells
  2. Synthesise proteins using 70S Ribosomes, like prokaryotes.
  3. Naked loop of DNA, like prokaryotes.
  4. Double Membranes
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Define Evolution

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The changes that occur in living organisms over many generations.

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When does evolution occur

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When heritable characteristics of a species change.

59
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The basic bone structure in amphibians, reptiles, birds,, and mammals, that is used in a variety of ways and is evidence of evolution.

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Pentadactyl Limb

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Homologous Structures

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Structures that have similarities of structure despite the differences in their functions.

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Artificial Breeding

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Selecting individuals with desirable traits, and breeding from them.

62
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Animal that has similarities to other vertebrates, but has eight fingers and seven toes.

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Acanthostega

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Dark varieties of typically light-coloured insects

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Melanistic

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Observations and Deductions explaining natural selection

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  1. In natural populations, there is variation between the individuals
  2. Species tend to produce more offspring than the environment can support.
  3. There is a struggle for existence in which some individuals survive and some die.
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Acquired Characteristics are not seen in ____

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OFFSPRING

66
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Daphne Major

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A Small island in the Galapagos Archipelago.

67
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El nino led to finches beak size ____

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increasing

68
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La nina led to finches beak size ___

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decreasing

69
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Disease-Causing

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Pathogenic

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Analogous

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Comparable in certain respects

71
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Three sources of variation

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  1. Mutation:
    New alleles are produced by gene mutation, which enlarges the gene pool of a population.
  2. Meiosis
    Produces new combinations of alleles by breaking up existing combinations in a diploid cell.
  3. Sexual Reproduction
    Gametes come from different parents, so the offspring has a combination of alleles from two individuals.
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Eukaryotes are one of the major groups. State the names of the other two.

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Eubacteria and Archaea

73
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Adaptive Radiation

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Structures that have evolved differently in related organisms and are now used for different functions.

74
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Outline evidence for differences between organisms in the past and those alive today.

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Fossils or extinct species/ of species with different characteristics.

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Gene Pool

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Consists of all the genes and their different alleles in an interbreeding population.

76
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Allele Frequency Range

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0.0-1.0, total frequency of all alleles is 1.0

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Three types of natural selection (DSD)

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Directional:
On extreme in the range of variation is selected for, the other extreme is selected against.

Stabilising:
Intermediates are selected for and extremes are selected against

Disruptive:
Extreme types are selected for and intermediates are selected against.

78
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Speciation

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The formation of new species

79
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Reproductive Isolation

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One population not interbreeding with any other populations of its species.

80
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Three types of Reproductive Isolation

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Temporal: Populations breed at different times
Behavioural: Population of a species have behaviour that prevents interbreeding.
Geographical: Populations of a species live in different areas and therefore do not interbreed.

81
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When did the Big Bang Occur and when did Earth exist?

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13 BYA and 5 BYA

82
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Fossil of Fish found in Arctic

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Tiktaalik Fish

83
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Prebiotic Earth Conditions:

Pre-Oceanic

  • Energy?
  • Atmosphere Gas?
  • Geo Activity?

Oceanic

  • Energy?
  • Atmospheric Gas?
  • Geo Activity?
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Pre-Oceanic
UV, Heat
H2
Most H2 lost to space

Oceanic
UV, Lightning, Molten Lava
H20, CO, CO2, N2, CH4, NH3
H2O condenses, volcanic activity

84
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Ocarina’s Theory

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Earth spontaneously gave rise to organic compounds of life, and these organise compounds gave rise to cells.

85
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What was the purpose of the Miller-Urey Experiment?

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Prove that primitive Earth conditions could have given rise to organic compounds, PROVED IT.
Demonstration of Abiogenesis.

86
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What did Sidney Fox suppose?

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Supposed that where volcanic contacted h20, there would be chemical reactions taking place.

AA’s convert to proteinoids.

87
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Three stages of chemical evolution

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  1. Abiogenesis
    Organic compounds created
  2. Polymerisation
    In deep sea vents, AA’s where converted to proteinoids
  3. Protocell Formation
    Proteinoid’s mixed with water to make protocells.
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Adipose Cells

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Cells with large vacuoles containing fat.

89
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Exobiology

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The study of life in such regions beyond our planet

90
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Three scientific models for the origins of life on Earth

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  1. Ocean Surface
    Life arose in a tidepool pond, and gases from volcanoes led to the creation of prebiotic molecules.
  2. Panspermia
    Living organisms were “seeded” on Earth as “passengers” aboard comets and meteorites.
  3. Undersea Thermal Vents
    Life formed at volcanic vents, providing gas, energy, and catalysts.
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Three types of symbiotic relationships

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  1. Mutualism
    Both organisms gain
  2. Commensalism
    One organism gains and one is not harmed
  3. Parasitism
    One organisms gains while the other suffers.
92
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Earth’s early atmosphere contained:

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Water Vapour, Methane, and Ammonia

93
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Aspirin Proposed that life began in the:

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Ocean

94
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Miller and Urey subjected a flask containing gasses and water to electrical sparks and obtained:

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Organic Compounds

95
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Scientists speculate that ___ evolved from ___.

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Eukaryotes, Prokaryotes

96
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According to one theory, the first molecules that could replicate were molecules of:

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RNA

97
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name two conditions that were different in the prebiotic Earth compared to present day

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there was no oxygen in the atmosphere and there was a lot of lighting (could’ve said heat from volcanic eruptions

98
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What is the endosymbiotic Theory? give one evidence for the endosymbiotic theory.

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when there were only prokaryotes, the bigger promaryotes ate the smaller prokaryotes and instead of digesting it they coexisted and became a double membrane. 70s ribosomes, double membrane, is a single circular of DNA

99
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it is often suggested that life first evolved near deep-sea hydrothermal vents. what reason is put forward to support this hypothesis?

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there was nutrients and energy from the volcanic vents necessary to form organic compounds of life from heat. UV was unable to reach depths of the ocean

100
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How is natural variation used in artificial selection

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nature provides the variation among different organisms and humans select these differences.

101
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natural selection acts on ___ which in turn may result in the evolution of ___ over time.

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Individuals, Populations

102
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which of the following does not provide evidence towards evolution

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Cytology

103
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how does natural selection contribute to the theory of evolution?

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Over time, natural selection results in changes in the inherited characteristics of a population.

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