Lesson 5-6 Flashcards
How you get from non-living chemicals to the first living organism
chemical evolution
Hypothetical contents of a living cell - the “Goo inside the globule” idea
Protoplasm
Imaginary ocean of amino acids at the earth’s beginning
Prebiotic soap
Function dependent on the arrangement of the parts
Sequence specificity
Deoxyribonucleic acid; a molecule which stores and transmits hereditary information within the cell
DNA
Desirable traits in the chemicals of the “prebiotic soup” were selected and passed on to create the digital code (DNA)
Prebiotic natural selection hypothesis
Molecular forces of attraction created the digital code (DNA)
Self-organization hypothesis
Isaiah 45:18a
“For this is what the Lord says- He who created the heavens, He is God, He who fashioned and made the earth, He founded it…”
How you get from simple life forms to complex (darwin’s theory of evolution)
Biological evolution