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17 Cards in this Set
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What Is evolution? |
the concept that most species have changed over long periods of time. |
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What does O3 represent? |
The ozone gas |
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What are Coacervates? |
Early proto-cells |
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What scientist found A.A during hisexperiments? |
Miller |
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What are biochemical similarities? |
Objects or organisms that have similar enzymes and hormones. |
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What are the body parts called thathave the same structure but different functions? |
Homologous structures |
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What is the first principle of Lamarck'stheory? |
Limericks first principle of Lamarck's theory is the law of use and disuse |
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What is the second principle ofLamarck's theory? |
Transmission of acquired characteristics |
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Who is Lamarck? |
A french scientist who believed that new organisms appear as you need them, and that organs and body parts become stronger the more they use them. |
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What are the two main ideas of Lamarck's experiments? |
New organs appear as the person needs them and acquired traits are passed onto the offspring |
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Who is Weismann, and whom did he disprove? |
Weismann is a scientist who disproved Lamarck. |
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Who is Devries and what did he propose? |
Devries is a scientist who proposed the idea of mutations. |
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What experiment did Weismann preform? |
He cut the tails off of 22 generations of mice, he believed that all of the offspring would have short or no tail but they all had long tails. He used this to disprove Lamarcks idea of Transmission of acquired characteristics. |
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Who did an experiment with rotting meat? |
Redi |
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Who did an experiment with an "s" shaped flask? |
Pastuer |
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Who simulated early Earth's conditions? |
Miller |
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Who wrote the Heterotroph hypothesis? |
operan |
