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