Metabolism
a molecule that organisms get from the air or water around them and use to release energy
What is oxygen?
a specific characteristic of an individual organism
What is a trait?
all the living and nonliving things interacting in a particular area
What is an ecosystem?
a closed ecosystem made by humans; it failed
What is a biosphere or biodome?
the main predator of the newts we studied
What is the garter snake?
the body system that takes in food and breaks it down
What is the digestive system?
an instruction for making a protein molecule
What is a gene?
a small part that is meant to show what the whole is like
What is a sample?
an organism that can make its own energy
What is producer?
a trait that makes it more likely that an individual will survive in a specific environment
What is an adaptive trait?
the body system that takes in oxygen and releases carbon dioxide
What is the respiratory system?
a random change that sometimes results in a new trait
What is a mutation?
If there are more births than deaths in a given time, then the size of the population will . . .
What is increase?
the process by which plants and other producers use energy from sunlight to change carbon dioxide and water into oxygen and glucose
What is photosynthesis?
the process by which species adapt to environmental changes over a very long time
What is evolution?
the body system that transports molecules to and from the cells of the body
What is the circulatory system?
having gene versions that are different, such as A1A2
What is heterozygous?
a population that eats organisms from another population
What is consumer population?
the chemical reaction between oxygen and glucose that releases energy into cells; all living things perform this process
What is cellular respiration?
author of On the Origin of Species
Who is Charles Darwin?
What is glucose?
the amount of connectors that create more flexible silk strands in Darwin's Bark spiders
What is fewer or less connectors?
a larger resource population provides THIS for its consumer population
What is more energy storage molecules (energy/food)?
this molecule moves from abiotic matter to biotic matter during photosynthesis
What is carbon?
whether or not a trait is adaptive depends on this
What is the environment?