the remians of organisms preserved within the Earth
What is fossils?
100
any individual form of life that uses energy to carry out its activities
What is an organism?
100
this lab lab used markers and dice to simulate an environment
What is artificial selection lab?
100
was the first to propose a model for how life evolved
Who is Jean-Baptiste Lamarck?
100
the characterisitcs are organization, the ability to develop and grow, the ability to react to stimulus in the environment, and the ability to reproduce
What are the characteristics of life?
200
a short period of time when huge numbers of species died or became extinct
What is mass extinction?
200
an instrument that makes an object appear larger than it really is
What is a microscope?
200
the purpose of this lab was to understand how genes sequence and create all things for an organism using only four base pairs
What is letter lab?
200
Charles Darwin made most of his observation on evolution on this chain of islands
What are the Galapagos Islands?
200
the sun provides the most
What is energy for life?
300
any inherited trait that gives an organism a particular advantage for its environment
What is adaptation?
300
a tough outer covering that lies just outside the cell membrane
What is a cell wall?
300
we gathered water and sorted the organisms within it into two catergories: unicellular and multicellular
What is pond water lab?
300
a species that has traits purposely bred into it by humans
What is artificial selection?
300
he looked at dead cells from a tree and gave the cell its name
Who is Robert Hooke?
400
a segment of DNA that releates to a specific trait or function of an organism
What is a gene?
400
a cell whose genetic material is located within a structure enclosed by a membrane
What is a eukaryotic cell?
400
we added bromethyl blue dye to our slides to stain the parts of the skin cells so we could more accurately see its parts
What is skin cell lab?
400
it contains four different ways species can develop over time: overproduction, variation, adaptation, and selection
What is natural selection?
400
he showed that microscopic organisms were at work in both the spoilage o food and in the spread of disease
Who is Louis Pasteur?
500
a physical structure that was fully developed and functional in an earlier version of an organism but is reduced in size and unused in later version of the species
What is a vestigial organ?
500
large numbers of tiny single celled organisms
What is bacteria?
500
the purpose of this lab was to recognize what scientists go through when finding bits and pieces of organisms without knowing the whole picture
What is the puzzle lab?
500
this occurs when an environment changes drastically in a short period of time, affecting the organisms and causing them to develop differently than others in the original species.