Chapter 12 Biology

Biology 

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What did the developmet of heredity allot organisms to store and pass on to their offspring?
Information
Photosynthesis in what oraganism originally formed oxygen that becamse ozone in Earth's atmosphere/
Cyanobacteria
What event on earth were the sparks intended to stimulate?
Lightning
Core theme/ central idea of modern Biology. Which means, living things change over time to adapt to a changing enviorment.
EVOLUTION
Wrote essay in 1798 about how evolution takes place. Suggested on earht being able to hol human population
Thomas Malthus
What did darwin contribute?
The mechanism that drives evolution; Natural selection a.k.a survival of the fitest.
Volcanic gases heat H2O, atmosphere cycling of ever more complex organic molecules.
Bubble theory
Life is what?
Small RNA chains of nucleotides and amino acids
3.65 --> 3.9 billion years old?
PROKARYOTES
1.5 billion years old?
EUKARYOTES
.56 billion years old?
Multicellularity
RNA chains in H2O?
Microspheres
Who created the promordial soup model?
A.I Oparin, and J.B.S. Haldane
Idea that early oceans in earth held signifigant quantities of organic molecules.
Primordial soup model
Earth early atmosphere had what?
N2 (nitrogen gas)
H2 (hydrogen)
H20 (hydrogen)
NH3 (ammonia)
CH4 (methane)