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| What kind of bio diversity is in clean water? |
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| Many different types of species |
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| What kind of bio diversity is in dirty water? |
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| Many larve but few species |
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| The guy who throws sludge around the board room making a point without hurting anyone (the teacher) |
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| Everything equally (but was meant for crop pests) |
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| Who invented DDT and when was it banned from the USA. |
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| How does DDT come into contact with the golden eagle |
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| Through the food chain ie. Larve > Fish > Eagle |
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| Is water or air cheaper to clean? |
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| Does the FDA allow "filth" in our foods? |
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| Yes, there is acceptable pollution of food and additives are added to some to extend shelf lives |
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| What are the 5 types of pollution |
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| Water, Air, Biochemical/Filth in Food, Noise & Light |
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| What is a major reason for overpopulation |
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| The curing of many major diseases. Such as Diphtheria (the major killer of kids in 1900) and Pneumonia |
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| What is the problem with Antibiotics? |
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| It allows us to live longer which in the scheme of this is bad and helps create "super virus'" |
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| What are Aristotle's 4 main books |
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1. The natural history of animals
2. On the parts of animals
3. On the generation of animals
4. On the psyche |
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| What is the Scala Naturae |
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| aka The Scale of Nature, it was the first classification of animals. Humans were at the top bugs and snakes at the bottom |
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| What are the 6 steps to the Scientific Method? |
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1.Recognition of a problem
2.Observation
3.Formation of a hypothesis
4.Experimentation
5.Accept or reject hypothesis
6.Publish the data |
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| What was Carl Von Linne known for |
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| Inventing Binomial Nomenclature - 2 name categorization system using Latin words |
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| Homo Sapiens or Homo Sapien? |
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| Degeneration aka Reverse Evolution. |
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| The present is the key to the past |
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| what were the 2 ideas of James Hutton (Uniforitarianism)? |
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1. The earth is old (older than the biblical terms suggest)
2. Change is the normal chain of events |
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| What is signifigant about Dr. Berringer? |
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| He teaches us to always question everything and have an open mind (Dinosaur fossil guy) |
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| Who is the father of Paleontology? |
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| Gorges Cuvier also an expert in comparitive anatomy |
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| Georges Cuvier believed in what? |
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| Catastrophism - major catatsrophes cause extinctions |
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| What are the 2 types of Catastrophism |
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1. Deluvinism - Floods
2. Vulcanism - Volcanos |
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| A Treatise on the VD was written by who |
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| John Hunter mastered which four medical subjects |
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1. Blood Coagulation
2. Lymphatic System
3. Chick Embryogy
4. Venereal Disease |
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| Jean Baptiste Camarck termed which two failed concepts |
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1. Use vs. Disuse
2. Inheritance of acquired characteristics |
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| Who where the three main people that influenced Charles R Darwin? |
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1. Alfred Wallace - Gave Darwin the outline of Origin
2. Thomas Malthus - Termed survival of the fittest
3. Charles Lyell - Made Darwin believe the earth was millions of years old |
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| What were the four main points of Origin of Species |
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1. Struggle for existence
2. More offspring were produced than could survive
3. Individual variations present
4. Some variations are beneficial to get passed on |
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| Small, discreet changes in genetic structure over time |
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| Survival and ________ of the fittest |
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| False, it explains things the best it can |
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| Isolation is a basic concept of evolution because... |
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| Smaller populations require less time to change than bigger pops. |
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| "Selection" in terms of evolution has two types |
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1. Artificial Selection- Man messing with the species
2. Natural Selection- Mother Nature's guiding hand |
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| What are the four basic concepts of evolution |
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1. Mutation
2. Gene Recombination
3. Isolation
4. Selection |
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| Three possible origins of life |
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1. created supernaturally
2. external source "astroplankton"
3. Evolved on an orderly manner from non-living matter |
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| Who was the first to attempt to disprove spontanious generation |
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| Francesco Redi - meat w/ maggots |
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| Louis Pasteur was known for what |
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| Disproving spontaneous generation with beef broth |
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| Two people important in the chemosynthetic origin of life |
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1. Sidney Fox
2. Stanley Miller |
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| What were five substances made up the majority of the early earth atmosphere |
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| water vapor, hydrogen, nitrogen, methane, ammonia |
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| The make up of the early atmosphere needed NRG to get life started. What three sources could that come from |
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1. Sunlight
2. Heat
3. Electrical discharge |
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| A closed early atmosphere environment produces |
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| amino acids and hydrocarbon chains |
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| Coacervates are early examples of |
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| Pre-Living cells, made up of amino acids, proteins and hydrocarbon chains |
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| DNA contains what type of information |
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| To assist in protein synthesis |
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Daytime reaction > chemical reaction produces NRG from sunlight, water, carbon dioxide. Producing sugar and oxygen
Nighttime reaction > takes in oxygen and water and produces carbon dioxide |
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| What are the levels of organization |
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| Atom > Molecule > Cells > Tissues > Organs > Organisms > Population > Community > Ecosystem > Biosphere |
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| The seven properties of life are |
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1. Organization
2. Homeostasis
3. Ability to acquire & use NRG
4. Respond to stimuli
5. Reproduction
6. Growth & Development
7. Adapt to a changing enviorment |
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| The tendency to remain the same |
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| The ability to acquire and utilize NRG is also defined as |
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| One of the seven properties of life is the ability to respond to stimuli which is also defined as |
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| An all inclusive word for the growth and development of life is... |
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| The three generalizations of the cell theory are |
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1. All organisms composed of one or more cells
2. The cell is the most basic unit of life
3. All cells originated from pre-existing cells |
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| What is the purpose of a plasma membrane |
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| It determines what goes in and out of the cell |
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| What is the powerhouse for the cell |
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| How does the Mitochondria power the cell |
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| By converting oxygen to NRG |
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| What is the cell's nucleus purpose |
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| Ribosome are manufactured in |
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| The Endoplasmic Reticulum serves two functions. What are they |
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1. It increases the surface area of the cell
2. It functions as the final attachment site for the ribosome, sometimes |
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| RNA is for protein synthesis and is found where in the cell |
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| What transports manufactured proteins out of the cell |
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| Lysosome Bodies aka suicide sacs serve two purposes. What are they |
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1. They contain digestive enzymes
2. Make up an important part of the cell defense mechanism |
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| The cell wall provides support and strength to the cell and also contains _______ |
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| Chloroplast contains what molecule |
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| The cell storage area for food and waste material is called |
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| Cancer is the ___________ of cells |
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| The occurrence during meiosis when cell bodies began to specialize there function |
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| the beginning of the formation of cancer cells |
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| the passage of particles from a region of greater to less concentration |
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| What is the passage of water through a semi-permeable membrane from a region of greater to less concentration |
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| What is the purpose of an Osmometer |
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| Device that measures osmotic pressure |
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| Comparable term meaning that solution A is of less concentration than solution B |
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| A comparable term meaning that solution A is of greater concentration than solution B |
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| Comparable term meaning that solution A is of equal concentration to solution B |
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| What reaction does turgor pressure cause |
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| Cell swelling ie. a plant standing back up after being watered |
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| Cells shriveling ie. not watering a plant and it wilting |
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| What is the difference between solution and mixture |
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A 5 gallon bucket filled with water and the following substances thrown in are examples of...
Solution > Sugar with water because it can disolve
Mixture > Dirt with water because it clumps together and does not disolve |
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| At what temperature does water reach maximum density |
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| What keeps the water from completely freezing through in low temperatures |
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| Ice floats due to it being less dense than the 4 degree water below creating insulating layer and shielding the water and animals below |
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| What does the surface to volume ratio constrain |
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| The cell size and body plans of multi-celled organisms |
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| What is in the area between plasma membrane and center region of a cell |
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| What are bacteria and archaea |
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| prokaryotes (they have little internal complexity and no nucleus) |
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| What is the smallest unit with the properties of life |
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| What is the purpose of organelles |
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| They organize the events in a cell ie. where the cell moves and stores substances in the cytoplasm and other specific destinations |
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| What is a double stranded DNA molecule |
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| Who was the first to record a biological observation with a microscope |
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| What is the lipid bilayer |
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| The structural basis of every cell membrane |
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| Who created the word "cell" |
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| How did the planets early atmosphere change to include oxygen |
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| tiny cells using photsynthesis released oxygen as a byproduct |
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| Rudolf Virchow's analysis eventually led to what |
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| If evolution were depicted as a tree a fork in the branch would be __________ and where that branch ends would be __________ |
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| Divergence is the fork in the branch and extinction is the end of the branch |
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| Phylogenetic is a type of classification system that reflects what |
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| presumed evolutionary relationships |
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| Layers of sedimentary rock ie. the horizontal lines in the Grand Canyon |
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| A homologous structure is |
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| A similar body part in different lineages with shared ancestors |
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| A species all deriving from a common ancestor have over time successfully adapted to their environment via natural selection |
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| Is an example of adaptive radiation |
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