natural Flashcards

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Deoxyribonucleic acid is a molecule that carries the genetic instructions used in the growth, development, functioning and reproduction of all known living organisms and many viruses

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dna

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Nucleotides are organic molecules that serve as the monomer units for forming the nucleic acid polymers deoxyribonucleic acid and ribonucleic acid, both of which are essential biomolecules in all life-forms on Earth

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Nucleotides

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Chargaff’s rules state that DNA from any cell of all organisms should have a 1:1 ratio (base Pair Rule) of pyrimidine and purine bases and, more specifically, that the amount of guanine is equal to cytosine and the amount of adenine is equal to thymine

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Chargaff’s Rules

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they found dna

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Watson and Crick

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Rosalind Elsie Franklin was an English chemist and X-ray crystallographer who made contributions to the understanding of the molecular structures of DNA, RNA, viruses, coal, and graphite.

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Rosalind Franklin

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In biology, a mutation is the permanent alteration of the nucleotide sequence of the genome of an organism, virus, or extrachromosomal DNA or other genetic elements

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Mutations

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Nicolas Cage is Charlie Kaufman, a confused L.A. screenwriter overwhelmed by feelings of inadequacy, sexual frustration, self-loathing, and by the screenwriting ambitions of his freeloading twin brother Donald

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Adaptation

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a group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals capable of exchanging genes or interbreeding.

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species

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the process by which different kinds of living organisms are thought to have developed and diversified from earlier forms during the history of the earth

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evolution

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A fossil is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age. Examples include bones, shells, exoskeletons, stone imprints of animals or microbes, hair, petrified wood, oil, coal, and DNA remnants

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Fossils

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fossil record definition. A term used by paleontologists ( see paleontology ) to refer to the total number of fossils that have been discovered, as well as to the information derived from them

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Fossil Record

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Charles Robert Darwin, FRS FRGS FLS FZS was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution.

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charles darwin

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a distinguishing quality or characteristic, typically one belonging to a person

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trait

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Selective breeding is the process by which humans use animal breeding and plant breeding to selectively develop particular phenotypic traits by choosing which typically animal or plant males and females

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Selective breeding

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Natural selection is the differential survival and reproduction of individuals due to differences in phenotype. It is a key mechanism of evolution, the change in heritable traits of a population over time.

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Natural Selection

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In population biology and demography, the generation time is the average time between two consecutive generations in the lineages of a population. In human populations, the generation time typically ranges from 22 to 32 years.

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Generation Time

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populations evolve to become distinct species.

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Speciation

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A primate is a mammal of the order Primates. In taxonomy, primates include two distinct lineages, strepsirrhines, and haplorhines

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The Hominidae, whose members are known as great apes or hominids, are a taxonomic family of primates that includes eight extant species in four genera

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Homo sapiens is the binomial nomenclature for the only known extant human species. Homo is the human genus, which also includes Neanderthals and many other extinct species of hominin; H. sapiens is the only surviving species of the genus Homo

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Homo sapiens