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| What are the 2 secrets to evolution? |
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| How does death lead to evolution? |
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| Extinction leads to adaptive radiation and new species |
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| What are changes made in organisms by humans such as domestication? |
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| What is natural variation by nature? |
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| What is a universal biological process that causes all organisms to be a product of evolution? |
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| What are periods of stasis in between changes in species? |
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| Evolution does not occur at a ___________ |
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| ____________ can give advantages to a species or it can be harmful. |
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| Evolution is _______ not goal-oriented |
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| Sometimes in evolution, things are not always... |
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| Some forms of ________ are normal parts of evolution |
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| What are the 3 causes of evolution and an explanation of each? |
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background - normal changes in environment
mass - multiple organism deaths at once
human activities - overfishing or hunting, pollution |
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| Before science, what ruled the origin of life? |
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| The concept of spontaneous generation or abiogenesis was created by... |
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| Who disproved spontaneous generation with his meat jar experiment? |
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| Aristotle notably created the idea of ___________, meaning that all organisms were placed by God and have not changed |
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| Who said the Earth is over 200000 years old and tried to describe how marine fossils formed inland? |
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| Who coined the phrase "a watch demands a watchmaker" supporting intelligent design? |
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| Who is the father of taxonomy but was blinded by religion? |
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| Who was a British physician, Darwin's grandfather, and the author of Zoonomia, a long poem on life? |
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| Who was the archbishop of Dublin and a biblical scholar that said the Earth is 10,000 years old? |
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| What scientist said "a day in the Bible is not necessarily a day to science" |
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| What law and theory was proposed by French scientist John Baptiste Lamarck? |
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| Law of Use and Disuse and Theory of Acquired Characteristics |
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| Who was the father of comparative anatomy and paleontology, the "Dictator of Biology", and the one who proposed the theory of catastrphes? |
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| Who wrote an essay on populations that disease and other earthly problems keep the human population in check? |
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| Who proposed unsupported statements regarding evolution called Vestiges that Darwin learned from? |
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| What careers did Darwin once pursue before biology? |
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| Who was the botany teacher that became friends with Darwin? |
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| Who was the seashore biology that hurt Darwin by not giving him credit for work? |
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| Who was the captain of the HMS Beagle? |
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| What position on the Beagle was Darwin offered? |
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| What did Darwin learn from Jimmy Button? |
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| people are part of nature and are very similar to other animals |
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| What did Darwin learn from the Brazilian Rain forest? |
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| What did fossils in Uruguay teach Darwin? |
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| Who was Darwin's assistant? |
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| What scientist used Uniformitarianism? What is this? |
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| Lycel, laws of nature change for no one |
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| What led Darwin to claim that geologic events have shaped the Earth? |
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| Seashells on top of a mountain |
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| What disease greatly affected Darwin? |
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| What causes Darwin to abandon fixide of species? |
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| What made Darwin wonder about animal behavior? |
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| His dog recognizing him after 5 years |
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| What made Darwin stray from his religious beliefs the most? |
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| The death of his favorite daughter at 10 years old |
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| Whose letter helped Darwin finish his book? They also wrote a paper together, but it was ignored. |
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| Who encouraged Darwin to continue writing? |
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| His friends Hooker and Huxley |
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| What did Darwin finally do in 1859? |
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| Released Origin of Species |
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| What was the Great Debate of 1859? |
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| Hooker and Huxley won a debate on evolution against Archbishop Wilberforce |
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| Darwin later became a magistrate and heavily attacked... |
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| Animal cruelty and ghost whisperers |
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| What happened to Darwin after he finished writing Origin of Species? |
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| When Darwin died in 1882, where was he buried? |
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| Westminster Abbey next to Isaac Newton |
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| What are the 5 main points of the Origin of Species? |
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| Variation, Geometric ratio of increase, Struggle for survival, Natural Selection, Descent with modification |
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| What is Geometric Ratio of increase? |
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| Production of more offspring than can be expected to survive |
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| What was the greatest evolution battle in American courts? |
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| What is the difference between macro and micro evolution? |
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Micro is at or below the level of species over a shorter time
Macro is at or above the level of species over a longer time |
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| The study of fossils or other organism remains that lived in the past |
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| How old must a fossil be in order to be a true fossil? |
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| What are two conditions that make fossilization more likely to happen? |
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| hard parts and quick burial |
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| What are the two methods of fossil dating? |
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| Relative dating and absolute dating |
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| What does relative dating use? |
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| index fossils and reasoning |
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| What does absolute dating use? |
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| radiometric, carbon, potassium to argon |
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| How long is carbon dating actually good for? |
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| What are some places fossilization can occur? |
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Entrapment in ice
Amber or sap
bogs
tar pits
coal
mummification |
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| How do dying plants preserve things? |
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| leakage of tanic acid lowers pH and kills bacteria that would normally break down the subtance |
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| What are other ways of fossilization? |
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Fossils in sediment
Petrification
Carbonized film
Ichnofossil
Molds and casts |
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| What are fake fossils that are just "cool rocks"? |
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