Vocab 1
What a plant or animal does.
What is a Behavior?
The reproductive process that involves one parent and produces offspring identical to the parent.
What is Asexual Reproduction?
The basic physical and functional unit of heredity made up of DNA
What is a Gene?
The transfer of genetic information from parent to offspring.
What is Heredity?
A characteristic of an organism; can be genetic or acquired.
What is a Trait?
The occurrence of an organism, trait, or gene in more than one form.
What is Variation?
A group of interacting individuals of the same species located in the same area.
What is Population?
The reproductive process involving two parents whose genetic material is combined to produce a new organism different from themselves.
What is Sexual Reproduction?
A cell lacking a nucleus or any other membrane bound organelle.
What is a Prokaryotic Cell?
A cell with a nucleus and membrane-bound organelles.
What is a Eukaryotic Cell?
The occurrence of an organism, trait, or gene in more than one form.
What is Variation?
A type of asexual reproduction in which one call divides to form two identical cells.
What is Binary Fission?
Process by which organisms with favorable traits produce more successful offspring than organisms with less-favorable traits, causing the favorable traits to become more common in the population.
What is Natural Selection?
Heterotrophic eukaryotes that reproduce through asexual spores, break down dead materials, and can spread disease.
What is Fungi?
A form of artificial selection where humans deliberately breed plants and animals for desired traits.
What is Selective Breeding?
One of the three taxonomic domains; a highly diverse group of single-celled prokaryotic organisms.
What is Bacteria?
Microorganisms from the kingdom Protista, must contain a nucleus.
What is a Protist?
The process by which genetic information generates a specific protein or trait.
What is an Expression?
A single, highly organized and structured piece of DNA.
What is a Chromosome?
A trait that is beneficial to an organism and will likely be chosen by natural selection.
What is a Favorable Trait?
The science of how genetic information is transferred from parent to offspring.
What is Genetics?
A characteristic that is passed from parent to offspring.
What is an Inherited Trait?
The study of internal and external functions of living systems.
What is Physiology?
A form of artificial selection where humans deliberately breed plants and animals for desired traits.
What is Selective Breeding?
Organisms of the same species that are at the same level of descent from a common ancestor; a parent is a member of one generation, and its offspring are members of the next generation.
What is Generation?