Chapter 9
Lynn Margulis
Chapter 10
Woese
Miscellaneous
100

What did Lynn Marguis discover/propose?

What is The Endosymbiotic Origin of Eukaryotes?

100

Where did Lynn Margulis grow up?

Where is Chicago?

100

What was Woese’s main discovery?

What is the third domain of life- archea?

100

What was Woese’s first name?

What is Carl?

100

 Both Woese and Margulis demonstrate signs of _____ when facing criticism from the scientific community.

What is a Growth Mindset?

200

The overturning of established ideas and the acceptance of a new scientific theory is an example of what?

What is a part of the scientific process?

200

Margulis's theory challenged this scientist’s theory on the process of species formation.

Who is Darwin?

(also Mendel)

200

What specific sequences did Woese analyze resulting in his discovery?

What is rRNA?(of methanogens)

200

What decade did Woese make his famous discovery in?

What are the 1970s(specifically 1977)?

200

In addition to being a writer, what else is Sean B Carroll?

An evolutionary developmental biologist

300

What is endosymbiosis?

What is an organism that lives within the body or cells of another organism?

300

Wallin’s suggestion in 1925 that ______ “‘may be regarded as symbiotic bacteria”’ sparked Margulis’s life’s work.

What is mitochondria?

300

What was classification at the time prior to Woese’s work based on?

What is Morphology?

300

What visual representation of evolutionary relationships was redefined as a result of Woese's discoveries?

What is the tree of life?

400

Before Lynn’s discovery, why did the differences between prokaryotes and eukaryotes appear "as the greatest discontinuity of evolution"?

What is the difficulty of envisioning how prokaryotes gradually accumulated all of the structures and machinery characteristics of eukaryotes?

400

What are two of the three points Margulis heavily relied on to draw her scientific theory conclusions? (from cytological studies)

1. Both mitochondria and chloroplasts contain specific DNA and RNA

2. Both organelles are self-reproducing structures, and arise from a preexisting organelle

3. Each organelle contains a genetic system that is inherited separately from the nucleus.

400

What specific RNA sequence was central to Woese's identification of the Archaea domain.

What is the 16S ribosomal RNA?

400

What field of study was significantly advanced by Woese's work on the genetic relationships among organisms?

What is phylogenetics?

400

What organism did both Woese and Margulis work on?

What is Euglena gracilis?