Evolution
This is the original theory for the mechanism of evolution proposed by Charles Darwin.
What is natural selection?
The monomer of DNA.
What are nucleotides?
This is the 'simplest' way a concentration gradient passively resolves across a membrane.
What is diffusion?
This is the name of the platform where you place your slide.
What is the stage?
This is the name for a plants that readily colonize available space before others encroach.
What is a pioneer species?
A method of selection that relies on characteristics like big antlers or flashy tails -- and how they compare to opposing members of the same species.
What is sexual selection?
The polymer of amino acids.
What are proteins?
This type of diffusion is helped along not by energy, but infrastructure alone.
What is facilitated diffusion?
This is the name of the larger wheels on the back of the microscope.
What is the coarse focus?
This is the name for plants that deter colonization by other species of plants.
What are inhibitors?
This is the term for genetic information travelling between populations... or what Darwin might've had if he had a rap career.
What is genetic flow?
Simple or complex, these are your immediate source of energy.
What are carbohydrates?
This type of transport uses energy to push substrates against a gradient.
What is active transport?
This is the name of the smaller wheels on the back of the microscope.
What is the fine focus?
This hypothesis addresses how environments with high biodiversity are more likely to withstand disturbance due to the varied responses of the species.
What is the insurance hypothesis?
When an allele is 'eliminated' or 'fixed', this phenomenon has occurred, which is more common in smaller populations... or what Darwin might do if he had a career in street racing.
What is genetic drift?
Three long chains of fatty acids make up this group of lipids.
What are fatty acids?
This type of transport refers not to the solute moving, but the solvent: water!
What is osmosis?
This is the name of the small metallic tubes that you use to further increase your magnification. Careful, they're expensive!
What are objectives?
This is a special kind of density-dependent regulation of population where especially small numbers of individuals in a population can result in a negative growth rate.
What is the Allee effect?
This type of speciation occurs when two populations of the same species live apart from each other for several generations, usually separated by barriers.
What is allopatric speciation?
A class of lipid that has many ringed structures, and does not appear to fit with the rest of its category.
What are steroids?
This type of membrane transport literally transports pieces of the membrane, capturing incoming material in vesicles.
What is endocytosis?
This refers to the space between a lens and the object it's looking at -- careful, high magnification causes this to shrink significantly!
What is working distance?
This is the name of the equation used to calculate a fire's rate of spread (ROS) based on fuel moisture, wind speed, slope aspect, fuel packing, heat to preignition, and effective heat of combustion.
What is the Rothermel equation?