Topic 11: Evolution

The scientists who conducted experiments that used ammonia, methane, hydrogen, and water vapor that formed into amino acids, which were thought to be in early earth.

• Watson and Crick

• Miller and Urey

• Schwann and Schlieden

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The study of how plants and animals are distributed around the world

• puncutated equalibrium

• biogeography

• endosymbiosis

• chemical evolution

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The gradual formation of life from non-living chemicals

• organic evolution

• biogeography

• chemical evolution

• anaerobic

Body parts that have no useful purpose but are there because the species still has the genes for them (wisdom teeth, appendix)

• homologous structures

• vestigial structures

• analogous structures

With oxygen

• arerobic

• anaerobic

• eukaryotic

• prokaryotic

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Body parts indifferent species that are completely different but happen to have the same function. (Not evidence of having a common ancestor) ex. bat wing and fly wing

• homologous structures

• analogous structures

• vestigial structures

Without oxygen

• aerobic

• anaerobic

• endosymbiosis

• relative dating

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Body parts indifferent species that are derived from the same structure even if they have different functions, indicating that two species have a common ancestor. (bat wing and human hang)

• homologous structures

• analogous structures

• vestigial structures

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An organisms whose cells contain a nucleus and other membrane-bound organelles.

• aerobic

• anaerobic

• prokaryotic

• eukaryotic

The idea proposed by Eldridge and Gould suggesting that sometimes evolution moves slowly, but at other times it occurs rapidly.

• radiometric dating

• relative dating

• endosymbiosis

• punctuated equilibrium