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Biology
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| how old is the earth? | 5 billion years old |
| life began? | 4 billion years ago |
| when did multi-cellular life begin? | 3 billion years after life began |
| When did complex life begin? | 1/2 billion years ago In the Oceans (Cambrian Geologic period) |
| When did land vertebrates appear? | 425 million years ago |
| when did mammals appear? | 230 million years ago |
| when did primates appear? | 50 million years ago |
| What did Stanley Miller find in his "early earth experiment" ? | Amino Acids the building blocks of life |
| Chloroplasts | use sun's energy to synthesize carbon compounds oxygen is a by product |
| mitochondria | use oxygen to make energy |
| what does evolution mean? | unfolding descent with modification |
| natural selection | -variation in population -overproduction -adaptive -offspring best adapted will reproduce |
| genetic drift | some evolutionary changes occur by chance |