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What are the two options for genetic descendance

A

Monophyletic and paraphyletic

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What are sarcophytes?

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Organisms that feed off dead organisms

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What is the Linnaean hierarchy?

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Domain
Supergroup
Kingdom
Phylum
Class
Order
Family
Genus (capital letter)
Species
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What is deductive reasoning?

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Apply general principles to small results (big to small)

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What is inductive reasoning?

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Apply specific information to construct general principles (small to big)

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What are the six supergroups and which clearly include which kingdom?

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Chromalveota
Rhizaria
Excavata
Amoebozoa
Opisthokonta (animalia and fungi)
Archaeplastida (plantae)
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What are the two cellular generators?

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Mitochondria and chloroplast

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What is the principle of the differential survival and reproduction of individuals with certain inherited traits, the major mechanism for evolution?

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Natural selection

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What is the process in which species arise and change over time, the idea that all organisms have descended from common ancestors?

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Evolution

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What is fitness?

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The ability to produce offspring. High fitness=to produce many surviving offspring

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What is adaptation?

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Traits that increase the fitness of an individual in a particular environment.

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Who had the right and the wrong theory about evolution?

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Darwin had the right one

Lamarck had the wrong one (giraffes)

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Who did the experiment to simulate Earth conditions?

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Miller and Urey

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What was the Miller Urey experiment?

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They simulated an atmosphere righ in hydrogen and lacking hydrogen. Within a week, simple compounds formed. Hence, they concluded that life could appear in these conditions.

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What forms a phosphodieseter bond?

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Nucleic acid monomers.

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16
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What links with glycosidic linkages?

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Disaccharides

17
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What are linked with peptide bonds?

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Amino acids

18
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What is linked with ester linkages?

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Triglyceride molecules

19
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What are pyrimidines and purines?

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The two types of nitrogenous bases.

Pyrimidines: smaller single ring molecule
Purines: large double ring molecules.

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