Leason 5-6 Vocab

Question 1

How you get from non-living chemicals to the first living organism

Answer 1

Chemical evolution

Question 2

Hypothetical contents of a living cell-the “goo inside the globule” idea

Answer 2

Protoplasm

Question 3

Imaginary ocean of animo acids at earths beginning

Answer 3

Prebiotic soup

Question 4

Function dependent on the arrangement of the parts

Answer 4

Sequence specificity

Question 5

Deoxyribonucleic acid; a molecule which stores and transmits hereditary information within the cell

Answer 5

DNA

Question 6

Desirable traits in the chemicals of the “prebiotic soup” were selected and passed on to create the digital code (DNA)

Answer 6

Prebiotic Natural Selection Hypothesis

Question 7

Molecular forces of attraction created the digital code (DNA)

Answer 7

Self-organization Hypothesis

Question 8

How you get from simple life forms to complex life forms (Darwin’s theory of evolution)

Answer 8

Biological evolution