Lecture 1 Flashcards
1
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Five characteristics of living things
A
- made up of cells
- store and process information in the form of DNA and RNA
- Replicate
- Evolve over time
- Use energy
2
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Spontaneous Generation
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the idea that life just sprang up spontaneously from nothing or from deity
3
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Pasteur
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wanted to see if things appeared in response to the environment
4
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Redi
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meat and maggots experiment
-the meat that was uncovered contained maggots
5
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Natural Selection
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explains how evolution occurs
6
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Fitness
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ability of individuals to produce offspring
7
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Evolution
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species are related to each other and change over time
8
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Adaptation
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characteristic that increases the fitness of an individual in a particular environment
9
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3 things needed for natural selection to occur
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- Variation
- Heritable
- Influence fitness
10
Q
Natural selection acts on __________ while evolutionary change affects ____________
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individuals
populations
