Ecology Vocabulary
Any living factor in an environment that affects an organism
What is biotic factor?
process that converts solar energy into chemical energy
What is photosynthesis?
Process that begins with one cell and ends with 4 haploid cells
What is meiosis?
What is genotype?
Cells that contain a nucleus and membrane-bound organelles
What are eukaryotic?
A group of similar organisms that can breed and produce fertile offspring
What is species?
the products of cellular respiration
What are carbon dioxide and water?
Process that produces genetically identical daughter cells
What is mitosis?
Term for the physical characteristics of an organism
What is phenotype?
The organelle that packages and modifies proteins
What is the golgi complex?
A non-living part of the environment, such as sunlight, water, etc
What is an abiotic factor?
The pigment required for photosynthesis to take place
What is chlorophyll?
Process when egg and sperm fuse to create one cell
What is fertilization?
Inheritance pattern that would result in a black and white speckled chicken that results from crossing a black hen with a white rooster
What is codominance?
Term for the plasma membrane's ability to control what enters and leaves the cell
What is selective permeability?
A network of feeding interactions, through which both energy and matter flow
What is food web?
The part of the plant with the largest number of chloroplasts
What is leaf?
this process creates the gametes
What is meiosis?
Inheritance pattern that would result in pink flowers when you cross a red flower with a white flower
What is incomplete dominance?
What is hyptonic?
Each step in a food chain or food web
What is trophic level?
process that converts chemical energy in the presence of oxygen
What is cellular respiration?
What is zygote?
the expected phenotypic ratio when crossing AaBb x AaBb
What is 9:3:3:1?
The state of a solution that sees no net change in concentrations
What is dynamic equilibrium or isotonic?