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You should be familiar with the following terms:
- exoplanet
- direct imaging method
- gravitational microlensing method
- radial velocity method
- transit method
- super Earth
- mini Neptune
- Copernican principle
- habitable zone (Goldilocks zone)
- nebula
- pebble accretion
- planetesimal
- planetary embryo
- protoplanet
- chemically differentiated
- Murchison meteorite
- protoplanetary disk
- snow line
- organic molecule
- amino acid
- planet migration
- Theia
- Carl Sagan
- Isaac Asimov
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- Jules Gabriel Verne
- H.G. Wells
- The Flat Earth Society
- biological evolution
- astrobiology
- Nazca desert
- hydrothermal vent
- microbial mat
- organic chemistry
- biochemistry
- Miller-Urey experiment
- protein
- tholins (“star tar”)
- nucleic acid
- ribonucleic acid (RNA)
- deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)
- nucleobase
- phosphate
- single helix
- double helix
- gene
- chromosome
- panspermia
- tardigrade
- biosignature
- Drake equation
- cyanobacterial-algal mat
- WOW! signal
- Enrico Fermi
- the Fermi paradox
- Arecibo message
- golden records