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36 Cards in this Set
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When was the earth formed?
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4.5 BYA
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When did life first begin on earth?
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3.8 BYA
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When did photosynthesizing organisms begin?
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2.7-2.8 BYA
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What type of bacteria do photosynthesizing?
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Cyanobacteria
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What worm type organisms live in sulfur-rich geothermal vents?
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Archaea
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What three types of organisms perform photosynthesing?
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Cyanobacteria, Euglena, Plantae,
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Define Heterotroph
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An organism that does not produce it's own food and must get nutrients from consumption.
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Vocab - An organism that produces it's own food natually through chemosynthesizing or photosynthesizing.
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Autotroph
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Who came up with the genus/species levels of taxonomy?
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Linnaeus
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Describe levels of CO2, H2O, and O2 in the early earth atmosphere.
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CO2 = HIGH
H2O = HIGH O2 = NONE FREE |
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Solid engulfs another solid (eats)
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Phagocytosis
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Solid engulfs another liquid (drinks)
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Pinocytosis
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Perfromed tree in pot experiment
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van Helmont
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Believed in spontaneus generation
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van Helmont
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Disproved spontaneus generation
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Pasteur
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Performed bell jar experiment?
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Priestly
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Discovered plants fix air.
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Priestly
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Dicovered O2
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Priestly
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Found that "fixing air" only occured with sunlight
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Ingen-housz
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Found that "fixing air" only occured with green plants
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Ingen-housz
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Created first equation for photosynthesis, where plant splits CO2
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Ingen-housz
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Used purple bacteria
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van Neil
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proved oxygen in photosynthesis came from water
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van Neil
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What 2 types of the 5 types of chlorophyll are the most important?
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A and B
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What is compound in the middle of Chlorophyll A?
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CH3
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What is compound in the middle of Chlorophyll B?
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CHO
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Vocab - Chemicals that absorb light
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Pigments
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Who proved what parts of rainbow Chlorophyll uses?
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Englemann
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Who discovered the light independent reaction?
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Blackman
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Names for light reaction.
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- Light dependent reaction
- Noncyclic phosphorylation |
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Names for dark reaction.
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- Light independent reaction
- Calvin cycle - C-3 cycle |
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Vocab - The act of buliding up
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Anabolism
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Vocab - The act of breaking down.
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Catabolism
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Sugar produced by dark reaction.
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Ribulose biphosphate
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What is the most abundant molecule of the planet?
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RuBisCo
^ Ribulose Biphosphate Carboxylase |
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Vocab - Term for plants wilting.
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Plasmolysis
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