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a member of the chordate class Amphibia, which includes the frogs, toads, and salamanders, as well as the limbless caecelians
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Amphibian
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a member of the animal phylum Arthropoda, which includes the insects, spiders, ticks, mites, scorpions, crustaceans, millipedes, and centipedes
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Arthropods
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a member of a class of tracheophytes (Coniferophyta) that reproduces by means of seeds formed inside cones and that retains its leaves throughout the year
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Conifer
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the hypothesis that certain organelles, especially chloroplasts and mitochondria, arose as mutually beneficial associations between the ancestors of eukaryotic cells and captured bacteria that lived within the cytoplasm of the pre-eukaryotic cell
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Endosymbiont Hypothesis
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an organism whose cells are eukaryotic; plants, animals, fungi, and protists are eukaryotes
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Eukaryote
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a rigid external skeleton that supports the body, protects the internal organs, and has flexible joints that allow for movement
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Exoskeleton
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a human or a prehistoric relative of humans, beginning with the Australopithecines, whose fossils date back at least 4.4 million years
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Homonid
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a member of the fish order Sarcopterygii, which includes coelacanths and lungfishes. Ancestors of today's lobefins gave rise to the first amphibians, and thus ultimately to all tetrapod vertebrates
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Lobefin
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a member of the chordate class Mammalia, which includes vertebrates with hair and mammary glands
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Mammal
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the extinction of a large number of species in a short period of time
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Mass Extinction
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a small, hollow sphere formed from proteins or proteins complexed with other compounds
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Microsphere
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the theory that Earth's crust is divided into irregular plates that are converging, diverging, or slipping by one another; these motions cause continental drift, the movement of continents over Earth's surface
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Plate Tectonics
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a mammal characterized by the presence of an opposable thumb, forward-facing eyes, and a well-developed cerebral cortex; includes lemurs, monkeys, apes, and humans
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Primates
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an organism whose cells are prokaryotic; bacteria and archaea are prokaryotes
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Prokaryotes
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the hypothetical evolutionary precursor of living cells, consisting of a mixture of organic molecules within a membrane
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Protocell
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a member of the chordate group that includes the snakes, lizards, turtles, alligators, and crocodiles; not a monophyletic group
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Reptiles
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an RNA molecule that can catalyze certain chemical reactions, especially those involved in the synthesis and processing of RNA itself
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Ribozyme
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the proposal that living organisms can arise from nonliving matter
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Spontaneous Generation
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