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What is an example of a fast change to the Earth's surface?
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landslide or volcanic erruption
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Was part of a team who discovered that the differences in protein sequences refelcted the amount of evolutionary change between two species
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Emile Zuckerkandl
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Used a tree model to describe the genetic history of species and coined the term phylogenetics
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Ernst Haeckel
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Using foxes; this long-term experiment to determine the genetic heritability of characteristics associated with domestication in canines was started by thihs researcher
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Dmitri Belyaev
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First descibed a geneitc disease charcterized by impaired neurological development and a host of other symptoms and now known to be due to chromosomal duplication
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John Langdon Down
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British mathematician, along w/ another researcher who decribed the same principle, found that all else being equal when a population is in equilibrium allele frequencies in one generation may be used to predict genotype frequencies in the next generation
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Godfrey Harold Hardy
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Came up with the first viable theory by which evolution may occur
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Charles Darwin
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A plant pathogen used in the production of GMO crops to deliver genes to the plant genome
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Agrobacterium
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S biological characteristic which two different organisms share in common because they inherited it from a common ancestor
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Homologous Trait
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Can become any type of cell in a multicelluar organism
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Totipotent Cell
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Harvesting cells fron a patient and cloning those cells to create new tissues and organs
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Therapeutic Cloning
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Autosomal Dominant; found on chromosome 4 and more often found among people of European descent
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Huntington's Disease
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Total colorblindness is also known as...
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Monochromacy
