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What theory did oparin come up with?
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Organic soup theory
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What was the organic soup theory?
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The earth made up of: methane amonia water vapor heat volcanos lightening storms
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Who's theory did miller test?
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Oparins organic soup theory
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What was millers experiment?
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Put methane, amonia, water vapor in a box and run an electric current through it to find if life was created.
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Result of millers experiment?
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Amino acids found in bottem of box after experiment that could lead to protein and eventually an organism.
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List the 8 Forms of evidence of evolution.
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Oparins theory, millers experiment, fossils, amber, bog bodies, vestigial organs, embryos, biochemical evidence
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Name five ways fossils have shown animals evolved.
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Whales found on land, snakes found on land, elephants started as wolly mamoths, sharks smaller now, alligators smaller now
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What is amber?
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Tree sap that is hardened with insects frozen inside.
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What are sand traps?
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A quick sand type thing
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Name a famous tar pit.
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Labreya tar pits
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What is a bog body?
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Bodies found in acidic water that the enzymes prevented from decaying
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What is a vestigal organ?
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Structures found in animals that are no longer in use
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Two examples of a vestigial organ in humans and what they did
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1. Appendix- digests raw meat, 2.coccyx bone- thought to have been a tail
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What is appendicitic?
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Food gets into appendix and rots causing swelling in the appendix
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Why are embryos evidence of evolution?
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Similar embryos could have come from similar ancesters.
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