Principles of Evolution
History of Life
Classification of Life
Microbe Structure
Microbe Characteristics
100
The definition of a vestigial structure.
What is a structure that has been reduced in size and/or function from an ancestral species?
100
The products of Stage 3 of abiogenesis.
What are protocells?
100
The system used to give scientific names.
What is binomial nomenclature?
100
The protective outer covering of a virus.
What is a capsid?
100
The type of organism that might use sunlight as an energy source and glucose as a carbon source.
What is a photoheterotroph?
200
Disruptive selection
What is the type of selection that occurs when two extreme phenotypes are favored over an intermediate one?
200
The three methods for dating fossils.
What are relative, carbon, and K-Ar dating?
200
The definition of a taxon.
What is a group of organisms that share a set of traits?
200
The structure that allows bacteria to survive in unfavorable conditions.
What is an endospore?
200
The specific type of symbiosis that viruses represent.
What is obligate intracellular parasitism?
300
The only H-W condition that does not lead to evolution when violated.
What is "random mating"?
300
The law of superposition.
What is the idea that states that a given stratum is older than the one above it and younger than the one below it?
300
The definition of a derived trait.
What is a trait that is not found in the common ancestor of a taxonomic group?
300
The type of viruses that use reverse transcriptase.
What are RNA retroviruses?
300
The definition of a mycorrhiza.
What is a mutualistic relationship between soil fungi and the roots of most land plants?
400
The definition of reinforcement.
What is the development of a trait(s) that increase reproductive isolation between populations?
400
The primordial soup hypothesis.
What is the idea that organic monomers formed under the conditions found in the early atmosphere?
400
The four types of traits used for classification.
What are fossil, behavioral, morphological, and molecular traits?
400
The role of fimbriae.
What is the adherence of bacterial cells to other surfaces?
400
The three means of prokaryotic genetic recombination.
What are conjugation, transformation, and transduction?
500
The best definition of a species.
What is the smallest group of organisms capable of interbreeding that share a common monophyly?
500
The underlying cause of "The Great Dying".
What is the presence of excess carbon dioxide swept up to the surface by continental drift?
500
The categories of classification under "Domain", in order.
What are kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species?
500
The definition of a mycelium.
What is a network of fungal hyphae?
500
The five major steps of the lytic cycle, in order.
What are attachment, penetration, biosynthesis, maturation, and release?
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