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| For life to have arisen from inanimate chemicals, it is believed that these conditions are necessary. |
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NO free oxygen, chemical building blocks,
time, energy. |
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| A characteristic of living things |
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| Response to the environment. |
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| Swarm behavior and consciousness are examples of--- properties. |
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| The maintenance of constant internal environment in the organism is |
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| A heterotroph is an organism that |
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| obtains nourishing molecules by consuming other organisms. |
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| an autotroph is an organism that |
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| is capable of synthesizing nourishing molecules using energy from external sources. |
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| An anaerobe is an organism that |
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| use no oxygen in metablosim |
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| The ensemble of all the chemical activities taking place in an organism |
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| Water displays these following properties |
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| excellent solvent, high surface tension, high specific heat. |
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| the same number of protons but different number of neutrons. |
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| the linear sequence of amino acids in a protein is its ___ structure. |
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| When we have a protein with more than one subunit, we refer to its |
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| Two molecules with the same formula but different placements are ___ isomers |
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| the formation of a peptide bond releases a water molecule, this is an example of |
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| Homologous structures are the result of convergent evolution |
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| The occurrence of a species in just a single location |
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| Homo floresiensis was present on the earth at the same time as homo sapiens. |
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| an example of adaptive radiation, evolved from a single finch species, and showed micro evolution over a span of a few years. |
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| The accumulation of genetic changes within a population |
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| The evolution of large antlers in now extinct Irish elk |
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| increased the mating success of males. |
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| Mating system in which few males mate with more than one females |
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| Mating system in which few males mate with more than one females |
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| Pink iguanas on the galapagos islands |
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| are a newly discovered species that is distinct from other species of iguanas |
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| Two geographically separated populations appear different but can breed and produce offspring |
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| successful mating of two closely related species produces a |
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| Tree-like descriptions of the evolutionary origin of a group of related species |
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| For two populations of species to be considered Separate They must fill this criteria |
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| The two populations cannot mate with each other. |
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| the process of naturally occurring variation |
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| In___, the selecting agent is humans, whereas in __ the selecting agent is the environment. |
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| artificial selection; natural selection |
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| Isotopes have the same number of neutrons but different number of protons |
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| Dark colored moths have become less common as coal dust from urban areas of england has become less prevalent. This is an example of__ |
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| West chester faculty on evolution of salamanders |
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| west chester pharmacology |
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