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All living things are composed of cells and come from preexisting cells
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What is an example of selective
1 Define cell theory
breading?
what is the chromosomal theory of
3 4 Define preformation
inheritance?
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, What is an example of selective fossils of dogs showing they were from wolf
breading? ancestors (humans and wolfs were competitors,
then turned to companions)
What is selective breading? a process used by humans that allows only those
animals with desired characteristics to produce the
next generation of organisms.
Who proposed the idea of William Harvey
epigenesis
define epigenesis concept that a fertilized human egg undergoes
developmental events that lead to the formation of
a human
Define preformation a fertilized egg contained a tiny version of a fully
developed adult (called a homunculus)
Who introduced the idea of cell Matthias Schleiden and Theodor Schwann
theory (2)
define spontaneous generation the idea that living things can spontaneously
generate from non living components
Define cell theory All living things are composed of cells and come
from preexisting cells
Cell theory completely debunked spontaneous generation
the idea of: