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A fossil made of hardened minerals in the shape on the original organism or one of its parts called an

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Cast

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What is considered a scientific theory

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Evolution

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What was Charles darwins job on the beagle

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Learn about living things he saw and studied on his voyage

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What is used by scientist to determine the evolution relationships

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Order of amino acid in a protein

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The technique that allows scientists to determine the actual age of a follow is called what

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Absolute dating

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An adaption is any trait that helps an organism

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Survive and reproduce

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Most fossils form when they become buried in what

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Sediment

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One of the main ways by which species form is through

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Geographic isolation

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A species is a group of similar organisms that can

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Mate reproduce fertile offspring

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Absolute dating of fossils depends on the decay of

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Radio active elements

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A diagram that shows how different groups of organisms Re related are called

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Branching tree

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The ____ of a radioactive element is the time that takes for half of the atom in a sample to decay

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Half-life

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12
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Evolution occurs by means of a process called

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Natural selection

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13
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Who is the author of the origin of species

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Charles Darwin

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Any difference b/w individuals of the same species is called variation
True or false

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True

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The millions of follis that scientists have collected make up the follis record True or False

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True

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Only traits that are learned can be acted upon by natural selection
True or False

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False inherited

17
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Related species have similar body structures bc they inherited the same genes from a common offspring True or False

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False ancestor

18
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When a hard part of an organism buried in sediment dissolves and levels an empty space, the result is called a cast.
True or False

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Mold

19
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What is a type of protein that speeds up a chemical reaction in a living cell called

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Enzyme

20
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What is the process by which a cell captures the energy in sunlight and makes it into food

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Photosynthesis

21
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The different forms of a gene are referred to as

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Alleles

22
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A genetic disorder in which a persons blood clots very slowly or not at all is called

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Hemophilia

23
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a ______ is a group of similar organism that can mate w/ each other and produce fertile offspring

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Species

24
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_____ are the basic units of structures and function in living things

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Cells

25
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The storage are of a cell is called

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Vacuole

26
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____ is the process by which cells “withdraw” energy from glucose

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Respiration

27
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In _____ the alleles are neither dominant nor recessive

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Codoninance

28
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The first stage of the cell cycle is

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Interphase

29
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____RNA copies the coded messages from the DNA in the nicles and carries it to the cytoplasm

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Messengers

30
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Three or more forms of a gene that code for single trait are called __

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Multiple alleles

31
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_____ is the process of selecting a few organisms w/ de straits to serve as parents of the next generation

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Selective breeding

32
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Scientists use ___ dating to determine which of two fossils is older

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Relating

33
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Similar structures that related species inherited from a common ancestor are called _____ structures

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Homozygous structures

34
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A species is ______ if no members of that species are still alive

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Extinct

35
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Active transport is the process by which water passes through a selectively permeable membrane
True or False

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False osmosis

36
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Anton van Leeuwenhoek Was the first scientist to see tiny living things through a microscope
True or False

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True

37
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Meiosis is the process by which the number of chromosomes is reduced by half to form to from sex cells.
True or False

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True

38
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A carrier is a person who has One recessive and one dominant allele for a trait
True or False

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True

39
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A karyotype is a diagram that shows how scientist think different groups of organisms are related
True or False

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False pedigree

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