Lesson 5-6 Flashcards
1
Q
How you get from non-living chemicals to the first living organisms
A
Chemical Evolution
2
Q
Hypothetical contents of a living cell - the “goo inside the globule” idea
A
Protoplasm
3
Q
Imaginary ocean amino acids at earth’s beginning
A
Prebiotic Soup
4
Q
Function dependent on the arrangement of parts
A
Sequence Specificity
5
Q
Deoxyribonucleic Acid; a molecule which stores and transmits hereditary information within the cell
A
DNA
6
Q
Desirable traits in the chemicals of the “prebiotic soup” we’re selected and passed on to create the digital code (DNA)
A
Prebiotic Natural Selection Hypothesis
7
Q
Molecular forces of attraction created the digital code (DNA)
A
Self- Organization Hypothesis
8
Q
How you get from simple life forms to complex (Darwin’s Theory of Evolution)
A
Biological Evolution
