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Science

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Any process of change through time.   Evolution.  
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Any remains or traces of a once living organism.   Fossils.  
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Ways to preserve whole organisms from decay.   Trap it in amber, ice, or tar.  
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What hard parts of an organism can be preserved?   Bones, shells, and teeth.  
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The process by which the body of a dead organism is slowly replaced by dissolved materials.   Petrifaction.  
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Fossils are formed at the bottom of bodies of water in which the sediments gradually settle and cover the bodies of dead organisms.   Sedimentation.  
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What trace of dinosaurs, besides fossils, has been left behind?   Footprints.  
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What traces did worms and burrowing animals leave behind?   Tubes and tunnels.  
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The upper layer contains ____________ and _________ complex organisms.   Younger, more.  
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The lower layer contains _____________ and ____________ complex organisms.   Old, less. (Primitive)  
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Sequence of changes in the complexity and type of organisms.   1. Unicellular 2 Simple multi cellular 3. Complex multi cellular  
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Illustrates the hypothetical evolution of organisms and their relationships to other species.   Phylogenetic trees.  
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The study of structural similarities and differences among living things.   Comparative anatomy.  
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Structures found in different types of organisms that have the same basic arrangement of parts and a similar embryonic development.   Homologous structure.  
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Examples of homologous structures.   Whale flipper and human arm.  
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Why are the whale's flipper and human's arm homologous structures?   Same pattern and number of bones.  
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Structures found in different types of organisms that are similar function or outward appearance, but are dissimilar in basic structure or embryonic development.   Analogous structures.  
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Examples of analogous structures.   Bird and insect wing.  
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Remnants of structures that were functional in some ancestral form.   Vestigial structure.  
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Examples of vestigial structures.   Tailbones, wisdom teeth, appendix.  
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Embryos of organisms believed to be closely related because they show similar patterns of development.   Comparative embryology.  
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The composition and structure of the biochemical compounds in different species can be compared.   Comparative biochemistry.  
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Examples of comparative biochemistry.   Amino acid sequence, hormones, enzymes, proteins, DNA, and blood.  
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Believed that changes in the species occurred because of a striving of organisms for improvement.   Lamark.  
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Lamark believed that evolution was based on the _________ of an organism.   Needs.  
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The more an animal uses a particular part of its body, the stronger and better it becomes, proposed by Lamark.   Law of use and disuse.  
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Lamark's assumption that a trait acquired during the lifetime of an individual can be transmitted to its offspring.   Inheritance of acquired characteristics.  
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Said acquired characteristics cannot be acquired with the mouse experiment.   Weismann.  
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Said evolution occurred because of natural selection.   Charles Darwin.  
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The idea that organisms with favorable characteristics are better able to survive and reproduce than organisms not as well adapted.   Natural selection.  
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The four steps of Charles Darwin's theory.   1. Overproduction 2. Competition 3. Survival of the fittest 4. Evolution caused by favorable variation  
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Discovered mutations and proposed that mutations are the source of new traits that permitted evolution to occur.   DeVries.  
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How did DeVries improve Darwin's theory?   He explained how variation occurs.  
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Two populations of the same species may become separated by a geographic barrier like a body of water or a mountain range.   Geographic isolation.  
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Populations of the same species have diverged enough that they can not longer interbreed.   Reproductive isolation.  
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Examples of reproductive isolation.   Finches and squirrels.  
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Examples of evolution in organisms.   Moths, bacteria, insects.  
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Evolution occurs gradually and continuously.   Gradualism.  
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Species remains the same for a long period of time with sudden and brief intervals of change.   Punctuated equilibrium.  
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The hypothesis that the first organic compounds were formed by natural chemical processes on the primitive earth.   Heterotroph hypothesis.  
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According to the heterotroph hypothesis, what were the first types of organisms on earth like?   Hetertropic, simple, unicellular, anaerobic, prokaryotes, bacteria.  
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The original atmosphere had no _____________.   Oxygen.  
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Primitive earth was much ___________ than it is now.   Hotter.  
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Sources of heat of the primitive earth.   Lightning, solar radiation, radioactivity.  
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Sequence of life on earth.   1. heterotrophs 2. anaerobic respiration 3. carbon dioxide 4. autotrophs 5. oxygen 6. aerobic respiration  
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