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13 Cards in this Set
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What are protobionts?
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Primitive cell-like structures that form spontaneously from a mixture of organic monomers and polymers.
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What are fossils?
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Preservation of an organism in rocks.
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What is paleontology?
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The study of fossils.
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Who largely developed the field of paleontology?
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Georges Cuvier
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What is catastrophism?
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The belief that catastrophes extinguished certain species and allowed others to thrive.
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What is gradualism?
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The belief that changes in the earth happened gradually.
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What is uniformitarianism?
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The belief that the earth's changes tend to balance each other out over time.
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What is evolution?
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The belief that species change their characteristics over many generations.
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What is natural selection?
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The idea that species that possess traits that promote their survival are more likely to reproduce and pass those traits on.
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What is biogeography?
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The parallels of evolution and a population's geographic distribution.
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What is comparative anatomy?
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The similarities between the anatomy of different species.
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What is comparative embryology?
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The similarities between the development of embryos of different species.
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What are the similarities of life at the molecular level?
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Genetic material and metabolic pathways.
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