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Chapter 1-2 Acme Study Guide

Chapter 1-2 Acme Guide

Chapter One:

  1. What is the abiogenesis and who first formulated the hypothesis?
  2. What is the difference between a eukaryotic and prokaryotic cell?
  3. What are defining features of a plant cell verses an animal cell?
  4. What size objects are used for electron microscope, compound microscope and dissecting scopes?
  5. What is the cell theory and what does it not discuss?
  6. What structures are found in polysaccharides, lipids and proteins?

Chapter Two

  1. If an adaption was found to be “most desirable” then what advantage would that give to the species that acquired it?
  2. If a population is adapted to it’s environment then what will happen to successive generations?
  3. What three key concepts are found in the definition of adaptation?
  4. Mollusks ( like snails ) and reptiles are found in fossil remains, yet soft flatworms were difficult to find. Why?
  5. What type of evidence are fossils?
  6. How would you estimate how old a fossil is? (2 ways)
  7. What are four problems with using fossils for evidence of change?
  8. What is the difference between direct and indirect evidence?
  9. If you are exploring biochemical evidence between species are you looking exact DNA or a degree of relatedness?
  10. How many definitions are there for evolution.
  11. What is the difference between a process,a theory and a cause for diversity?
  12. How is a species made?
  13. What defines what a species is?
  14. What is speciation?
  15. What is an isolation mechanism?
  16. What isolation mechanism cannot be crossed?
  17. If a species in one geographic location looked the same as another much further away, this would be an example of what?
  18. If one species moved to land and the other stayed in the water, then looking at the two species, you could propose that they would …..?
  19. Can you answer any question on page 88-89 and do you know the concepts and vocab listed there?

 

 

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