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Early Earth
and Life
Natural
Selection
Patterns of
Evolution
Scientists
Hodgepodge
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Around 4.6 billion years ago.
What is when the Earth was
formed?
Theory that states that life
comes from other living
things.
What is biogenesis?
This was formed by
condensation of gases
water in the atmosphere.
What are the oceans?
These were formed when
Miller and Urey
simulated the
atmosphere of Early
Earth
What are amino acids?
Pasteur disproved this
theory.
What is spontaneous generation?
This was the name of Darwin’s
famous first book.
What is “On the Origin of
Species”?
These are the two main
processes responsible for
creating variations in a
population.
What are mutations and
crossing over?
This has been caused by
overuse of antibiotics and not
following directions when
taking antibiotics.
What are antibiotic
resistant bacteria?
Fossils and homologous similarity
among
vertebrate embryos are two things
that supports this belief.
What is the suggestion we all
have a common ancestor?
The appendix in humans and the
pelvic girdle in whales.
What are vestigial structures?
This is when two species in
close association evolve together.
What is coevolution?
This is when unrelated species
become more similar over time.
What is convergent
evolution?
These terms sound alike but one
means to move out of a
population and one means to
move into the population.
What are immigration (in) and
Emigration (out)?
When a new species is made as a
result of a physical separation of
the groups by land or water.
What is geographical isolation?
This is another name for divergent
evolution as seen in Darwin’s finches.
What is adaptive radiation?
This scientist supported the theory
of acquired characteristics and
described it by talking about the
giraffe’s neck stretching.
What was Lamarck?
Urey and Miller tested this
scientists theories about Early
Earth’s composition.
What was Oparin?
This scientist did the
rotting meat
and fly experiment to test
spontaneous
generation.
What was Redi?
Name of the ship on which Darwin
sailed around the world.
What is the Beagle?
Name of the scientist that came up
with the same theory of Darwin
about natural selection but got
secondary credit only.
What was Wallace?
The name of breeding for a certain
trait such as that done in dog
breeding.
What is artificial selection?
The humerus of a person and the
humerus of a cat, whale and bat are
called these types of structures.
What are homologous structures?
Common name for the endangered ,
Acinonyx jubatus.
What is the cheetah?
These random changes in genes called
this produce new traits in a
population.
What are mutations?
This organ in humans is like
the malpighian tubules in insects
since they perform similar functions.
What are the kidneys?