Evolution/Natural Selection
The ability to produce offspring
What is a trait?
The study of living things and their environment
What is Ecology?
The idea that the body must remain in balance
What is homeostasis?
The smallest unit of life
What is a cell?
The reason male birds are often colorful while females have dull colors
What is sexual selection?
This allel will cover up other alleles
What is dominant?
What is 10%?
The body system that clears the body of antigens
What is the immune system?
The smallest unit of matter
What is an atom?
The idea that only individuals with the traits best suited to the current environment survive to reproduce
What is natural selection?
This allele won't show in the phenotype unless there are 2 copies.
What is recessive?
Herbivores fall into this trophic level
What are primary consumers?
The process where a response increases the stimulus
What is a positive feedback loop?
Cells of the same type, grouped together
tissue
The scientist who originally came up with natural selection
Who is Charles Darwin?
What are x-linked traits?
Humans, orcas, bears, and jaguars are examples
What are apex predators?
The process where a response decreases the stimulus
What is a negative feedback loop?
The system responsible for breaking down food and absorbing nutrients
What is the digestive system?
Dog breeding, modern-day crops like broccoli, cauliflower and kale
What is artificial selection?
The phenomenon produces link snapdragons?
What is incomplete dominance?
What was Cyclone Oli?
These are cells that catalog antigens so the body can respond more quickly upon reexposure
What are memory B cells?
The system responsible for supporting the human body
What is the skeletal system?