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Creationism
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a theory that matter and various forms of life were created by god out of nothing
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Intelligent Design
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the assertion that certain features of the universe and living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not by an undirected process (such as natural selection)
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Bacterial Flagellum
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a tail-like projection that protrueds from a cell body and functions in locomotion
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Charles Darwin
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English Naturalist
who presented that alll species of life have evolved over time from common ancestors, through natural selection. |
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Alfred Russel Wallace
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British naturalist
who also proposed a theory of natural selection, prompting Darwin to publish his own theories |
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Creationism
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a theory that matter and various forms of life were created by god out of nothing
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Intelligent Design
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the assertion that certain features of the universe and living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not by an undirected process (such as natural selection)
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Bacterial Flagellum
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a tail-like projection that protrueds from a cell body and functions in locomotion
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Charles Darwin
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English Naturalist
who presented that alll species of life have evolved over time from common ancestors, through natural selection. |
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Alfred Russel Wallace
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British naturalist
who also proposed a theory of natural selection, prompting Darwin to publish his own theories |
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Henry Walter Bates
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English Naturalist
who gave first scientific account of mimicry in animals |
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Roy Chapman Andrew
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American Explorer who found the first ever fossil dinosaur eggs. Later became director of the Museum of Natural History
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Thomas Malthus
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British scholar
who said that population growth will always get checked by famine, disease, or widespread morality |
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Charles Lyell
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geologist who was a huge influence on Darwin
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Hypothesis
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a proposed explanation for an observed phenomena
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Scientific Theory
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a collection of concepts together with scientific laws that express relationships between observations of such concepts
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Natural Selection
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process by which heritable traits that make it more likely for an organism to survive and successfully reproduce become more common in a population over successive generations
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Walter and Luis Alvarez
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Father/Son geologist pair who discovered the K-T Boundary while working in Italy
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K-T Boundary
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a geological signature associated with the extinction of the dinosaurs
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Irridium
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a chemical element found in clay in the K-T Boundary, which was attributed to an asteroid or comet impact
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Tektite
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natural glass rocks which were formed by the impact of meteorites on earths surface
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Chicxlub
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area near the Yucatan Peninsula where the ancient impact crater is located
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Marjorie Latimer
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scientist who found the coelacanth, a fish thought to have been extinct
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Coelacanth
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fish thought to have been extinct for 65 million years
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Living Fossil
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term for any living species of organism which appears to be the same as another species otherwise only known from fossils
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sickle cell disease
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genetic life-long blood disorder characterized by red blood cells
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Antibiotic Resistance
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when a microorganism has the ability of withstanding the effects of antibiotics via natural selection and random mutation
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Sexual Selection
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theory proposed by Darwin that states that certain evolutionary traits can be explained by competition.
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Neandrathal
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subspecies of humans
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Meme
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a unit of cultural ideas transmitted from one mind to another
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