Early Earth and Life Natural Selection Patterns of Evolution Scientists Hodgepodge 1pt 1 pt 1 pt 1pt 1 pt 2 pt 2 pt 2pt 2pt 2 pt 3 pt 3 pt 3 pt 3 pt 3 pt 4 pt 4 pt 4pt 4 pt 4pt 5pt 5 pt 5 pt 5 pt 5 pt

Around 4.6 billion years ago.

What is when the Earth was formed?

Theory that states that life comes from other living things.

What is biogenesis?

This was formed by condensation of gases water in the atmosphere.

What are the oceans?

Miller and Urey simulated the atmosphere of Early Earth These were formed when Miller and Urey simulated the atmosphere of Early Earth

What are amino acids?

Pasteur disproved this theory.

What is spontaneous generation?

This was the name of Darwin’s famous first book.

What is “On the Origin of Species”?

These are the two main processes responsible for creating variations in a population.

What are mutations and crossing over?

This has been caused by overuse of antibiotics and not following directions when taking antibiotics.

What are antibiotic resistant bacteria?

Fossils and homologous similarity among vertebrate embryos are two things that supports this belief.

What is the suggestion we all have a common ancestor?

The appendix in humans and the pelvic girdle in whales.

What are vestigial structures?

This is when two species in close association evolve together.

What is coevolution?

This is when unrelated species become more similar over time.

What is convergent evolution?

These terms sound alike but one means to move out of a population and one means to move into the population.

What are immigration (in) and Emigration (out)?

When a new species is made as a result of a physical separation of the groups by land or water.

What is geographical isolation?

This is another name for divergent evolution as seen in Darwin’s finches.

What is adaptive radiation?

This scientist supported the theory of acquired characteristics and described it by talking about the giraffe’s neck stretching.

What was Lamarck?

Urey and Miller tested this scientists theories about Early Earth’s composition.

What was Oparin?

This scientist did the rotting meat and fly experiment to test spontaneous generation.

What was Redi?

Name of the ship on which Darwin sailed around the world.

What is the Beagle?

Name of the scientist that came up with the same theory of Darwin about natural selection but got secondary credit only.

What was Wallace?

The name of breeding for a certain trait such as that done in dog breeding.

What is artificial selection?

The humerus of a person and the humerus of a cat, whale and bat are called these types of structures.

What are homologous structures?

Common name for the endangered , Acinonyx jubatus.

What is the cheetah?

These random changes in genes called this produce new traits in a population.

What are mutations?

This organ in humans is like the malpighian tubules in insects since they perform similar functions.

What are the kidneys?