Bio 4 Quiz 1

the father of evolution" who believed that a process called natural selection explains how organisms evolved over time

• Sidney Fox

• Darwin, Charles

• Mutations

• Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste 

•the idea that living organisms are created from nonliving matter

• •Prokaryotic

• •Spontaneous generation

• •Ancestry

• •Heterotroph

•Ancestry

• •one of the first scientists to disprove spontaneous generation by showing that flies come from other flies and are not created from meat

• •the idea that living organisms are created from nonliving matter

• •a scientific law that states that living organisms come only from other living organisms

• • the history of ancestors, e.g. parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, that traces back all previous generations for any given organism

a scientific law that states that living organisms come only from other living organisms

• •Natural selection 

• •Ancestry

• •Mutations

• •Law of biogenesis

•the "parent" species from which two or more separate species evolved

• •Ancestry

• •Natural selection

• •Common ancestor

• •Mutations

•Organic evolution

• •the gradual formation of life from nonliving chemicals

• •a group of similar organisms that can interbreed and produce fertile offspring: for example, all dogs belong to the same species

• •organisms of the same species that live in the same place at the same time

• •the theory of evolution that states gradual changes in living organisms have resulted in more complex organisms

•organisms of the same species that live in the same place at the same time

• •Chemical evolution

• •Organic evolution

• •Population

• •Species

•a group of similar organisms that can interbreed and produce fertile offspring: for example, all dogs belong to the same species

• •Population

• •Species

• •Chemical evolution

• •Organic evolution

•Chemical evolution

• •the theory of evolution that states gradual changes in living organisms have resulted in more complex organisms

• •organisms of the same species that live in the same place at the same time

• •the gradual formation of life from nonliving chemicals

• •a theory that states that organisms have changed gradually over time to form new kinds of organisms (or new species)

•existing with oxygen

• •Anaerobic

• •Species

• •Aerobic

• •Population