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Science vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Mutations | Changes that occur when a gene is damaged or lost panspermia |
| Panspermia | Suggests that life is actually widespread throughout the universe |
| Fixity of Species | The idea that plants and animals never change |
| Artificial selection | The human-controlled process of breeding plants or animals to develope and enhance specific desirable traits |
| Intelligent design | The theory that certain features of the universe and of living things are the result of an intelligent cause |
| Micro evolution | Small changes in a species overtime |
| Natural selection | Pattern or variation, greater survival and successful reproduction |
| Creationism | The idea that god created the universal and all life as described in genesis 1-2 |
| Origins | Beginnings |
| Informed intervention | A broader concept that also acknowledges Gods intervention at other times in history, such as the flood |
| Abiogenesis | The idea that life comes back from no living things from the Greek philosopher Aristotle in the 4th century BC |
| Spontaneous Generation | The idea that life can arise from no living materials |
| Macro evolution | All present life forms from a simple one-called organism |
| Exogenesis | Suggests that life began somewhere else |
| Primordial soup | The carbon dioxide methane ammonia and water that filled the oceans at some point in earths past |