Cell Biology
This is the powerhouse of the cell
What is the Mitochondria?
The largest shark species to have ever known to exist
What is the Megalodon?
Nonflowering plants that typically form mats or cushion shaped clumps. Can grow in a wide range of habitats
a system of sensory organs found in aquatic vertebrates, used to detect movement, vibration, and pressure gradients in the surrounding water.
What is a lateral line?
These cow-like creatures are thought to have inspired mermaid legends
Organisms not closely related independently evolve similar traits
What is convergent evolution?
This domesticated animal has 44x the smell receptors than humans
Why do dogs smells so good?
This membrane bound organelle is only found in eukaryotic cells
What is the nucleus?
This is shark has an estimated lifespan of 250 - 500 years
How long can the Greenland shark live?
These plants have endosperm within their seeds and often produce fruits that contain seeds.
What are flowering plant/angiosperm?
The scales of fish are similar in structure to this body part
What do scales and teeth have in common?
One of the species at the top of the food chain in the everglades.
Florida panther, american alligator, burmese python.
Physical & non-physical differences between male & females
What is Sexual Dimorphism?
This semiaquactic's ungulate nearest relatives is dolphin and whales
What are the closest relatives to hippos?
Creates proteins within a cell
What is the function of the Ribosomes?
This organ helps sharks detect the electromagnetic fields that all living things produce
What is the ampullae of lorenzini?
This is the Official Florida state flower
Orange Blossom
This gland helps marine fish regulate and secrete excess salt from their bodies.
Rectal Gland
This is Florida's largest land animal
Florida Black Bear
an example of convergent evolution in which a crustacean evolves into a crab-like form from a non-crab-like form.
What is Carcinisation?
A group of these weasel-related mammals is called a business
Ferrets
This organelle packages cells into membrane-bound besicles before they are sent to their desitnation
What is the Golgi apparatus?
This is the most common shark in the world
Spiny dogfish or Spurdog, Mud Shark, Piked Dogfish
These nonflowering plants have a long history, dating back nearly 300 million years and once being an important part of the worlds vegetation
How long have Cycads been around?
This nocturnal fish found in many fresh water bodies in Florida, have been known to make both drumming and stridulation sounds. Some may also call these "polliwogs".
Catfish
Showing its American pride, Florida has the second most pairs of this symbol of freedom, second only to Alaska.
Bald Eagles
A form of antipredator adaptation in which a social animals emits a signal in response to danger.
What is alarm signal?
One species of this marine animal is often considred to be immortal, as it can revert to its child state upon maturity.
Jellyfish
What is the endoplasmic reticulum?
This organ allows sharks to pull water into their respiratory system while at rest.
What is the function of the spiracle?
This tree is often considered a living fossil because it is virtually unchanged from fossilized specimens found in Triassic deposits
What is unique about the Ginkgo biloba?
These two organs serve a key function in a fish's ability to hear & sense sound
What additional function do lateral lines and ears have for fish?
There are an estimated 68 different varieties arities of this insect living in the everglades
How many varieties of mosquitoes are living in the Florida everglades?
An adaptation that advertises to potential predator that this animal is not worth attacking or eating
What is Aposematism? (Warning coloration, müllerian mimicry, or batesian mimicry might be acceptable answers too)
One of these two mammals are the only other mammals besides humans to undergo menopause
Elephants or Humpback wales
A complex and dynamic network of interlinking protein filaments present in the cytoplasm of all cells
What is the Cytoskeleton?
Sharks lack this structure making it necessary to carry a lot of oil in their bodies for buoyancy.
Gas Gland or Swim Bladder
The four common nutrients absorbed by plants from the soil
Nitrogen, Phosphorous, Potassium, magnesium
The lateral line plays this key role in the behavior of schooling fish.
How do fish orient themselves in schools?
This Florida creature has been an invasive species since the 1940s and has been a cause of the decline in population of its cousin Epithet, the carolinensis.
Green Anole
This genetic mutation causes over-development of melanin in the skin or hair
What is Melanism?
These cute and cuddly animals are the only primates to have a venomous bite
Slow Lorises