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23 Cards in this Set
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The hypothesis that early cells reproduced using RNA before there was DNA is known as ________.
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RNA-first Hypothesis
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________ describes the condition of primordial Earth where warm water contained the organic compounds necessary for the substances of life to be formed.
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prebiotic soup
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________ is a device used to illustrate the principle of irreducible complexity.
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a mousetrap
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________ is the belief that the universe came into being out of nothing.
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spontaneous existance
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Charles Darwin wrote ______ presenting his theory of evolution by natural selection.
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_The Origin of Species_
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proponent of the principle of irreducible complexity.
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Michael Behe
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Small gradual changes within a species that help it to survive.
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natural selection
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an element necessary to the formation of amino acids but not present in sufficient quantity in sediments from the prebiotic soup
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nitrogen
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an attempt to recreate the atmosphere of primordial Earth to show the possible rise of necessary organic compounds for life
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The Miller Experiment
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the observation that the universe has all the necessary and narrowly defined chatacteristics to make human life possible
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anthropic principle
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a system having a number of different parts all working together to accomplish a task does not work at all if any one of the parts is removed
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irreducible complexity
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describe how an angent or an agent's will caused something.
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personal explanations
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drawings attempting to show the similarity of development in various vertebrate embryos
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Haeckel's embryos
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a logical explanation for the coming into existance of the universe
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kalam argument
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the theory that certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not a random and undirected process
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intelligent design
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author of The Origin of Species and formulater of the theory of evolution by means of natural selection
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Charles Darwin
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a pictoral representation of the development of living organisms from common ancestors
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Darwin's Tree of Life
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a supposed "missing link" between reptiles and birds
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archaeopteryx
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describe how preexisting conditions and natural laws caused something
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scientific explanation
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an attempt to show that evolutionary processes can occur to replace one portion of a biological system
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Hall's experiment
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Hypothetical fossil of transitional life form between species
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missing link
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the theory that all living things arose from earlier life froms through a process of genetic mutation and natural selection over extremely long periods of time.
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evolution
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the chemical compound from which the genetic material is made
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DNA
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