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Claire LeBlanc Biology Exam

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Spontaneous generation   The theogy how how life begain. theory that living things arose from non-living things.  
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Abiogenesis   Spontaneous generation  
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What is the theory of Abiogenesis   The theogy how how life begain. theory that living things arose from non-living things.  
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Who was Redi?   Discovered that maggots came from flies not spoiled meat.  
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What did Sallanzani discover?   that microrganisms produced by the air formed from other organisms (living things come from living things)  
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Pasteur said????   that he disproved abiolgensis. He showed that all livings things come from other living things.  
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Father of microbiology?   Louis Pasteur  
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What is biogenesis?   the theory that living things come from (like cell theory) other living things.  
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Prokartots   were probably the first living things on Earth  
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What is Evolution?   Tries to explain change how different life forms have developed and why living things show similairities and differences.  
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What is a Paleotologist?   Scientist who study fossils remains  
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What is a fossils?   imprint  
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Where are fossils formed?   most fossils are fromed in SEDIMONTARY rock  
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Radio active   use of radioactive decay to calculate the age of a sample.  
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Half-Life   the time required for HALF of the radioactive atoms in a sample to decay.  
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Fossil records suggest similarities among groups of organisms   Transitional form  
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What is transitional form?   organisms with characteristics between those of zones kinds of organism that shows a link between these organisms  
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Arcgaepteryx   Ancestor that had claws and a skeleton like reptiles and wings and feathers like a birds. Considered trasitional between dinosours and birds.  
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Lamarck   proposed a theory called "the inheritance of aquired charateristics.  
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Darwin   wrote "the Orgin of Species"  
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Natural Selection   process by which individuals that are better suited to their enviornments survive and reproduce most seccesfully  
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Another name for "Natural Selection"   Survival of the fittest  
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Adaptations   inherited characteristics that increase an organism  
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How many types of adaptations are there?   3  
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What are the types of adaptations are there   morphological, physiological, behavioral  
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Morphological adaptations   structured traits (looks) (i.e giraffes neck is long)  
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Physiological adaptations   chemical adaptions (i.e snake toxins, metabolism)  
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Behavioral adaptations   how the organism acts (mating birds)  
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Gradualism   the theory that evolution was gradual and steady  
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Speciation   the formation of a new species can occur because of geography  
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Geographic isolation   the physical seperation of members of a population  
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Genes pool   combined genetic information of all members of a particular population  
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Extinction   disapearance of a species from all parts of its geographicical range  
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Population Genetics   how often the genes appear or occur in a population  
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primates   have binocular vision, and well developed cerbrum, relatively long fingers, toes and arms that can rotate around their shoulder joints  
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Because humans walk on 2 feet they are   Bipedal  
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Human teeth are...?   ...different from from species thought to be related to us  
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Because human have a brian they are ???   Intelligent  
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