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Question 1

Alfred russel Wallace

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convinced darwin to publish

Question 2

Darwins first thoughts on

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Hms beagle as a naturalist

Question 3

central idea to darwins thoughts

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individuals within a population vary in their traits and many of these traits are heritable
- these traits will influence how an organism survives and how successful it is at reproducing

Question 4

Malthus

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populations cannot grow forever, eventually some resource will limit it’s growth

Question 5

What leads to changes in populations

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mutations, genetic drift and reproductive isolation

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all cell membranes

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have the same basic structure because they have the same function

Question 7

nearly all cells

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use and release energy in the same way

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darwins term for evolution

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decent with modification

Question 9

Science

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way of learning about the universe through a formal process of observation and experimentation called the scientific method

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inductive reasoning

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observe and then attempt to explain your observation in a way that applies to everything

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deductive reasoning

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taking pieces of evidence and making a specific claim

do a series of experiments and tie it together

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modern science

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combines inductive and deductive reasoning, is never right or wrong but gets closer to the truth each time

Question 13

Scientific method results in one of

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hypothesis, theory, law

Question 14

hypothesis

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explains why things happen in a small number of events

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theory

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we can say why some happens for a large number of events

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scientific law

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based on repeated observations we can say what will happen in a measurable way