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Microevolution
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individual variation within a population; variation among populations
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Macroevolution
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Formation of new genes, order, etc.
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Origins
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How did life originate (Ex. spontaneous generation, creation, zoospore from space)
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Chemical Evolution
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life could have arisen from nonliving material through ordinary chemical reactions:
1. the components of the atmosphere combined to make simple organic (carbon based) molecules. 2. these simple organic molecules combined to make larger organic molecules. 3. these large organic molecules came together to make the first living cells. |
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Spontaneous Generations
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life coming to existence spontaneously
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Louis Pasteur
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credited with falsifying the model of spontaneous generation
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Francis Crick
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calculated the probablity of getting a particular sequence of the 20 amino acids in a protein chain with 200 amino acids
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