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Successful individuals pass on their traits, and those traits are successively
more frequent in future generations
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1 DNA 2 Variation
3 Descent with modification 4 Codon
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Terms in this set (81)
, DNA a molecule of nucleic acid
Gene A small region of a chromosome
Transciption RNA synthesis that happens in the nucleus, with the
RNA sequence being complementary to the DNA
Translation Protein synthesis that takes place in the ribosome,
with three types of RNA interacting to carry out
translation- mRNA, rRNA, tRNA
Codon Three nucleotide sequence that encodes one
amino acid
Mutation A change in a cell's DNA sequence
Essentialism Each species has an immutable essence, a 'type'
and each individual is an imperfect variation on that
type
Uniformitarianism A principle that geologic processes that occurred
in the past can be explained by current geologic
processes
What did Wallace and Darwin Common ancestry and natural selection
propose?
Descent with modification Successful individuals pass on their traits, and those
traits are successively more frequent in future
generations
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Successful individuals pass on their traits, and those traits are successively
more frequent in future generations
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1 DNA 2 Variation
3 Descent with modification 4 Codon
Don't know?
Terms in this set (81)
, DNA a molecule of nucleic acid
Gene A small region of a chromosome
Transciption RNA synthesis that happens in the nucleus, with the
RNA sequence being complementary to the DNA
Translation Protein synthesis that takes place in the ribosome,
with three types of RNA interacting to carry out
translation- mRNA, rRNA, tRNA
Codon Three nucleotide sequence that encodes one
amino acid
Mutation A change in a cell's DNA sequence
Essentialism Each species has an immutable essence, a 'type'
and each individual is an imperfect variation on that
type
Uniformitarianism A principle that geologic processes that occurred
in the past can be explained by current geologic
processes
What did Wallace and Darwin Common ancestry and natural selection
propose?
Descent with modification Successful individuals pass on their traits, and those
traits are successively more frequent in future
generations
