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| As rocks get older fossils become _________ _____________ to us. |
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| Who provided the core idea that became the accepted scientific explanation? |
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| There is a 'what' and 'how' to evolution, so what is the 'what'? |
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| All living things decended with modification from one or a few forms. |
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| There is a 'what' and 'how' to evolution, so what is the 'how'? |
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| Adaptive evolution via natural selection |
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common origin and natural selection |
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Mendel was refound and applied |
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| What is Modern Synthesis? |
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DNA structure is discovered |
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| Study proteins and DNA itself |
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| What allows us to infer relationships between species? |
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| The geologist who realized present processes can explain Earth's surface |
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| What is Uniformitarianism? |
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| Geological processes that happen slowly and logically to yeild predictable results |
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| How were early estimates of Earth's age determined? |
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| Careful heat measurements in mines |
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| What is radioactivity used for? |
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| Careful measurements of ratio of isotope to its daughter element gives us what? |
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| An absolute age for the rock |
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Wegener discovers that the continents fit together like a puzzle |
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Precise mapping of the ocean floor |
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| What is the fossil record? |
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| All known fossils and their chronology |
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| Where does one find fossils? |
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| In various sedimentary rocks with the older below the younger |
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| What do we know about evolution? |
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-Fossils
-Biogeography
-Comparative Anatomy
-Comparative Embryology
-Molecular Biology |
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| Why is the fossil record incomplete? |
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-Fossils are rare
-Most rock is buried
-Many remains are partial |
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| What are the best conditions for fossilization? |
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| O2 poor waters and fine sediments |
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| How do plate tectonics and fossils relate? |
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| As the plates move the rock is exposed to erosion which reveals the fossils |
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| Geographic distribution of species |
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| What is comparative anatomy? |
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| Comparison of body structures between different species |
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| Simularity due to common ancestry |
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| What do comparisons of homologies reveal? |
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| Relatedness via branching |
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| What is Comparative Embryology? |
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| Comparison of structures that appear in development of different species |
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| Close relatives will have simular what? |
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| What is Molecular Biology? |
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| Comparing DNA and proteins among different organisms |
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| How do you find relatedness between species using molecular biology? |
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| Shared sequences in genes, regulatory regions and "junk" DNA |
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| What percentage of species are now extinct? |
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| Most of the species that ever lived are what? |
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| Very unlike modern species |
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| He discovered the inheritance of acquired characteristics |
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| What did Darwin and Wallace do? |
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| Published the idea explaining life's diversity through evolution via natural selection |
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