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30 Cards in this Set
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Was Darwint he first to think up evolution
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no
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what type of rna is produced during the process in question 9
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mrna
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What are three types of evidence that darwin used to come up with his theory?
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finches
geographic dustributions oceanic islands |
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what is it called when a whole species dies off
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extintion
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when organisms mmove into a new habitat they can sometimes evlove very rapidly into many new and closely related species
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adaptive radiation
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If a mutation occurs in a gene so that the RNA sequence changes from AUUCCGGAGAAUCC to AUUCCGUAGAAAUCC what kind of mutation would this be
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non sense mutation - changes to a stop
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increases geometically
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population
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if a piece of dna has the sequence ATTGCGTA, what would the sequence be of the RNA that was copied from it
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UAACGCAU
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What is one example of this adaptive radiation
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fish
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stop codon
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uga
uaa uag |
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Increase arithmetically
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food
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what is the name of a 3-base long sequence of RNA codes for a single amino acid
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codon
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According to Darwin what process causes Evolution
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Natural Selection
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What happens to individuals if a population grows above its carrying capacity
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there will not be enough resources for it to survive and people would start to die off
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The name of the other person who came up with the idea of evolution only later
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wallis
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If a new species moves into a new habitat where there are other species that arent used to it what can happen to the old species
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they will not know how to react eventually becoming extinct
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did darwin publish his theory right away
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no
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what is it called when a whole ecosystem dies off
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mass extintion
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Animals like mosquitos that have thousands of young who almost all die are said to have what kind of life history
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r-selected
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elephants that have little offspring who almost always live have
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k-selected
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The number of individuals that a given habitat can support is called the
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carrying capacity
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human disese with a gentic cause
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hemophilia
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start codon
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aug
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Will reducing the birth rate of a county always immediatly drop its population growth to zero
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no
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Mendel's laws
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law of segregation
law of independence |
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all species living in an area together
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ecosystem
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process when dna is copied to rna
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transcription
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what did mendel do his expiermemts on
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pea plants
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how much energy moves from one level to the next
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10%
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----- flows through ecosystems, while ----- are recycled
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energy
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