Mitosis/ Meiosis
Is mitosis sexual or asexual?
Asexual
What is the SI unit for volume of a solid?
cm3
homozygous means?
same
The preserved remains of traces of an organism that lived in the past
fossil
a tick attaches itself to a dog to fee on it. What is this called?
parasitism
Meiosis ends up with how many daughter cells?
4
What instrument do you use to find the volume of an irregular object?
Graduated cylinder
The passing of DNA from parents to children is called:
Heredity
Who is known as the father of evolution?
Charles Darwin
What is the original source of all energy in an ecosystem?
Sunlight
The cell spends the majority of its time in this phase
Interphase
Name something important about lab safety
Multiple answers
What is a phenotype?
Physical traits
A bird's beak changes over time to fit its environment. What is this an example of?
An organism that produces its own food
autotroph
Mitosis ends up with how many daughter cells?
2
Repetition
What is the probability of having a recessive plant? Pp pp
50%
What are homologous structures?
similar structure, different functions
The top of the food chain is called a:
Tertiary consumer
Each daughter cell in meiosis has how many chromosomes?
23
What is the independent variable: Students were either given a new weight loss pill or a placebo and were monitored for how much weight they lost in an 8 week period.
The weight loss pill and placebo
How many generations can a pedigree chart show?
More than two
process by which organisms that are most suited to their environment survive and reproduce most successfully
Natural selection
The energy at each trophic level in the pyramid of energy decreases by a factor of ____.
10