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2 Biogenesis

3 Earth’s History

4 Charles Darwin

5 Natural selection

6 Evidence of Evolution

7 Evolution in Action

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9 Idea that life could come from nonliving things

10 What is spontaneous generation?

11 The reason maggots appear on rotting meat

12 What is flies lay eggs that hatch on the meat?

13 Scientist who disproved the spontaneous generation of flies

14 Who is Redi?

15 Scientist who disproved the spontaneous generation of microoganisms

16 Who is Pasteur?

17 Shape of the flask that prevented bacterial growth in broth for a year

18 What is S-shaped or curved?

19 Estimated age of the Earth

20 What is 4 billion years old?

21 This gas was missing from the early Earth atmosphere

22 What is oxygen (O 2 )?

23 Habitat for the first life forms on Earth

24 What are oceans and seas?

25 Besides UV radiation in the early atmosphere, this energy created simple amino acids

26 What is lightening or electricity?

27 These 2 scientist’s experiment simulated the atmosphere of early Earth & made amino acids

28 Who are Miller and Urey?

29 The ship Darwin sailed on as its naturalist

30 What is the H.M.S. Beagle?

31 Title of the book written by Charles Darwin

32 What is Origin of Species?

33 Islands studied by Charles Darwin

34 What are the Galapagos Islands?

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36 The mechanism proposed by Darwin for evolutionary change

37 What is natural selection?

38 Darwin used this phrase for individuals competing with each other

39 What is the “struggle for existence” or survival of the fittest?

40 Individuals having different traits in a population

41 What is genetic variation?

42 Man responsible for this theory

43 Who is Charles Darwin?

44 A trait that makes an individual successful in its environment

45 What is an adaptation?

46 In order to pass on traits, an individual must do this

47 What is reproduce?

48 A measure of an individual’s genetic contribution to the next generation

49 What is fitness?

50 Remains or traces of an organism that died long ago

51 What is a fossil?

52 Term that means a species no longer exists

53 What is extinct?

54 Record of when different fossils were found and organisms existed

55 What is a geologic timescale?

56 Rock strata where the oldest fossils will be found

57 What are the bottom most layers?

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59 Anatomical structures with similar structures but different functions

60 What are homologous structures?

61 Galapagos tortoises and finches were similar to the finches and tortoises found here

62 What is the mainland of South America?

63 Scientists study this macromolecule to determine if organisms are related

64 What is DNA or nucleic acid?

65 Evolution in when species develop similar characteristics because of living in similar environments

66 What is convergent evolution?

67 Type of evolution in which organisms with similar structures develop from a common ancestor

68 What is divergent evolution?

69 When species evolve and spread out to fill all parts of an environment

70 What is adaptive radiation?

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72 Fossils

73 Technique used to determine the absolute age of a fossil

74 What is radiometric dating?