Evolution Part 1 - Origin of Life

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Scientific Laws...

• Explain why things happen

• Are universally accepted facts or equations that can be used to make accurate predictions

• Predict what will happen

• Is a comprehensive explanation based on well documented data

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A Scientific Theory...

• Explain why things happen

• Are universally accepted facts or equations that can be used to make accurate predictions

• Predict what will happen

• Is a comprehensive explanation based on well documented data

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What is an example of a law?

• Mendelian Laws of Heredity

• Darwin's Theory of Evolution

• Law of conservation of energy

• Cell Theory

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What is an example of a Theory?

• Mendelian Laws of Heredity

• Darwin's Theory of Evolution

• Law of conservation of energy

• Cell Theory

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One of the earliest ideas, suggested that life arises from nonlife.

• Theory of Biogenesis

• Spontaneous Generation

• Endosymbiont Theory

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Proposed that ancestral eukaryotic cells absorbed prokaryotic cells, which evolved into organelles.

• Theory of Biogenesis

• Spontaneous Generation

• Endosymbiont Theory

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States that only living organisms can produce other living organisms.

• Theory of Biogenesis

• Spontaneous Generation

• Endosymbiont Theory

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Almost every specimen Darwin collected on the Galapagos was new to European scientists, though they were similar to species on mainland...

• Central America

• South Carolina

• South Africa

• South America

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Island and _____________ species should not have been so similar, unless mainland species had _____________ since arriving on the islands.

• Island

  Changed

• Mainland

  Same

• Mainland

  Changed

• Island

  Same

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Darwin hypothesized that new species could appear

• right after a change in climate

• never

• gradually through small changes in ancestral species

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Directed breeding to produce offspring with desired traits

• Evolution

• Natural Selection

• Artificial Selection

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Cumulative change in a group of organisms through time

• Evolution

• Natural Selection

• Artificial Selection

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Some competitors would be better equipped for survival than others, those less equipped would die.

• Evolution

• Natural Selection

• Artificial Selection