Biology Exam Semester 1
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- The hypothesis that early cells reproduced using RNA before there was DNA is known as ________.
- RNA-first Hypothesis
- ________ describes the condition of primordial Earth where warm water contained the organic compounds necessary for the substances of life to be formed.
- prebiotic soup
- ________ is a device used to illustrate the principle of irreducible complexity.
- a mousetrap
- ________ is the belief that the universe came into being out of nothing.
- spontaneous existance
- Charles Darwin wrote ______ presenting his theory of evolution by natural selection.
- _The Origin of Species_
- proponent of the principle of irreducible complexity.
- Michael Behe
- Small gradual changes within a species that help it to survive.
- natural selection
- an element necessary to the formation of amino acids but not present in sufficient quantity in sediments from the prebiotic soup
- nitrogen
- an attempt to recreate the atmosphere of primordial Earth to show the possible rise of necessary organic compounds for life
- The Miller Experiment
- the observation that the universe has all the necessary and narrowly defined chatacteristics to make human life possible
- anthropic principle
- a system having a number of different parts all working together to accomplish a task does not work at all if any one of the parts is removed
- irreducible complexity
- describe how an angent or an agent's will caused something.
- personal explanations
- drawings attempting to show the similarity of development in various vertebrate embryos
- Haeckel's embryos
- a logical explanation for the coming into existance of the universe
- kalam argument
- the theory that certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not a random and undirected process
- intelligent design
- author of The Origin of Species and formulater of the theory of evolution by means of natural selection
- Charles Darwin
- a pictoral representation of the development of living organisms from common ancestors
- Darwin's Tree of Life
- a supposed "missing link" between reptiles and birds
- archaeopteryx
- describe how preexisting conditions and natural laws caused something
- scientific explanation
- an attempt to show that evolutionary processes can occur to replace one portion of a biological system
- Hall's experiment
- Hypothetical fossil of transitional life form between species
- missing link
- the theory that all living things arose from earlier life froms through a process of genetic mutation and natural selection over extremely long periods of time.
- evolution
- the chemical compound from which the genetic material is made
- DNA