Genetics
specific physical characteristic that varies from one individual to another
trait
All the living and non-living things that interact in an area.
Ecosystem
The main difference between the Animal and Plant kingdoms
The Trophic levels ( animals being heterotrophs and plants being autotrophic)
Define adaptation
A trait that helps an organism survive
A group of landmasses with similar abiotic (temp or precipitation) and biotic factors (plants, animals, or fungi)
Biome
The physical traits that appear in an individual as a result of its genetic make up. What an organism looks like.
phenotype
A close relationship; one species benefits, the other doesn't benefit but isn't harmed
Commensalism
Name the 6 kingdoms
Archaebacteria, Eubacteria, Protista, Fungi, Plantae, Animalia
process by which individuals that are better suited to their environment survive and reproduce most successfully; also called natural selection
Survival of the fittest
Lakes, ponds, and rivers are examples of ...
Freshwater Ecosystem
Augustinian monk and botanist whose experiments in breeding garden peas led to his eventual recognition as founder of the science of genetics
Gregor Mendel
A scavenger is an organism that consumes mostly decaying biomass, such as meat or rotting plant matter.
Scavenger
What is the most diverse kingdom
Protista
was an English naturalist that established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestors and proposed the scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection
Charles Darwin
The Biome that gets the least rainfall (double points if you get how little it is)
Desert (lower than 9.9)
In aliens, Q=the allele for a smooth face and q= the allele for face spikes. Give the phenotype ratio for the offspring.
3 smooth face: 1 face spikes
A particular species of unicellular organism inhabits the intestines of termites, where the unicellular organisms are protected from predators. Wood that is ingested by the termites is digested by the unicellular organisms, forming food for the termites. The relationship between these two species can be described as ...
Mutualism
All kingdoms that (could) be Autotrophic
Archaebacteria, Eubacteria, Protist, Plant
Say a Polar Bear thrives in a Tundra environment. Name two adaptations they would have to fit the environment
Ex: Blubber and camouflage
most diverse and hottest terrestrial biome, biome near the equator with warm climate wet weather and lush plant growth
Tropical rainforest
For aliens the allele for a star antennae is dominant to the allele for no star. If a pure dominant alien is crosses with a hybrid alien, what would the genotypes of the offspring be? (Use "S" for your answer)
SS and Ss
There are green and Brown chameleons. Say they are in a grassy environment and precipitation increase. Make an inference of what will natural selection do
Natural selection will make the green chameleons less common because of the mud
How did Linnaeus group animals at first
kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species
is a trait or an organ that appears similar in two unrelated organisms
analogous structures
Name the two most similar biomes
Taiga and Temperate forest