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Miller-Urey experiment

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Check if lightning could have started life
Methane, ammonia, hydrogen, and water believed to be in atmosphere
Put them in with electric current and it created organic compounds

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First organic compounds

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Single celled

Lightning struck gases and that started life

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Role of meteors in earth formation

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They struck earth and might have contained water for the seas

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Origin of heredity/ first organic compound

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RNA

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First cells

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Prokaryotes
Heterotrophic
Lipid membrane enclosed RNA

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Cyanobacteria

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No idea what that is

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First eukaryotes

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Endosymbiotic theory
One bacterium engulfs another and it lives inside of it
Both benefit and have Endosymbiotic relationship
Internal bacteria get passed down
Become internal organisms like mitochondria

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Early conditions on earth

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Toxic
Volcanoes, molten
No atmosphere or water
Very hot and a bunch of gases

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Taxonomy

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Science of classifying organisms

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Linnaeus

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“Father of taxonomy”

Started Linnaeus classification system

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Aristotle

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Idk

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Linnaeus classification system

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Kingdom
Phylum
Class
Order
Family
Genus
Species
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Scientific name

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Binomial nomenclature

Genus species

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Common names

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Common names for organisms

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Language for classification

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Idk

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Hierarchy of taxa

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Taxonomic categories

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Phylogeny

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Evolutionary history of a group of related things

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Phylogenetic tree

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Shows how closely different species are related together through common ancestors