Microbiome
This term refers to all of the microorganisms that live in a particular environment, such as a human body.
Microbiome
This term refers to the body's overall process of using food and oxygen molecules for energy and growth.
Metabolism
This term describes a specific characteristic of an individual organism, such as having blue eyes.
Trait
This is a group of the same type of organism living in the same area.
Population
This is matter that makes up the nonliving parts of an ecosystem, such as air, water, and rocks.
Abiotic Matter
This is a random change to a gene that sometimes results in a new trait.
Mutation
This is a scientist who studies fossils in order to understand the ancient history of life on Earth.
Paleontologist
Even though both of these structures are microscopic, this specific unit of living things is much larger than a molecule.
Cell
This simple sugar molecule is produced when the digestive system breaks down carbohydrates, serving as a primary fuel source for cells.
Glucose
This biological unit acts as a direct instruction for making a protein molecule.
Gene
In a food web, the arrows show the direction that ________ moves throughout an ecosystem.
Energy
During this process, producers use energy from sunlight to change carbon dioxide and water into oxygen and glucose.
Photosynthesis
This term describes something in the environment that affects an individual's chances of surviving.
Selection Pressure
These are body parts in different animals that have different internal structures, but perform a similar function.
Analogous Structures
This type of medicine reduces the total amount of bacteria in a microbiome by killing both the helpful and harmful types.
Antibiotic
These molecules are produced when the digestive system breaks down proteins, and cells use them as building blocks to grow and repair tissues.
Amino Acids
This term applies when an organism has two copies of a gene that are different versions, providing instructions for two different types of proteins.
Heterozygous
This term describes a population that is eaten by organisms from another population.
Resource Population
During this biological process, carbon dioxide is produced from carbon energy storage molecules, moving carbon from biotic to abiotic matter.
Cellular Respiration
Whether or not a trait is considered this depends entirely on the environment.
Adaptive
This term describes an older population from which two or more newer species descended.
Common Ancestor Population
Living things with fewer than normal helpful bacteria can become infected more easily because of which environmental factor?
Because there is more food and space available
This organ system takes in oxygen from the air and expels carbon dioxide waste when cells break down energy molecules.
Respiratory System
If you change the __________ of a protein will change its function (job), how it connects, and what traits are made.
Structure
This type of interaction happens when two or more populations use the same resource, such as the same food source.
Competition
Since it cannot be produced or used up, the total amount of this element in a closed system does not change.
Carbon
These act as instructions for making protein molecules, which then determine an organism's traits.
Genes
This is what must happen for a species to survive if its environment changes.
Adapt
According to the unit's key concepts, what does a healthy human microbiome specifically require?
Various types of bacteria
This body system is responsible for moving oxygen, glucose, and amino acids through blood vessels to every cell in the body.
Circulatory System
This type of reproduction utilizes two parents to pass on genes, consistently resulting in offspring with unique gene combinations.
Sexual Reproduction
This is the term for a chain reaction where one cause leads to an effect, which then goes on to cause one or more other effects.
Indirect Effect
If there is less of ____________ available in the environment, producers will make fewer energy storage molecules.
Sunlight
Individuals with adaptive traits are more likely to live longer and _________ compared to those with non-adaptive traits.
Reproduce
This process takes a very long time, where tiny changes over thousands of generations eventually add up to huge differences.
Evolution