Kingdoms Fungi and Plantae
The transfer of pollen grains from the anther to the carpel in flowering plants.
What is pollination?
Segments of bone or some other hard substance that are arranged into a backbone.
What are vertebrae?
Organisms that eat both plants and other organisms.
What are omnivores?
An organism that eats primary consumers.
What is a secondary consumer?
The founder of modern genetics.
Who is Gregor Mendel.
The name of the drug which comes from a useful imperfect fungi, that can kill harmful bacteria associated with many human sicknesses.
What is penicillin?
Blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart.
What are arteries?
The process by which green plants and some other organisms use the energy of sunlight and simple chemicals to produce their own food.
What is photosynthesis?
This is taken from the air principally by respiration and is restored principally by photosynthesis.
What is oxygen?
Crayfish: These parts aid in swimming as well as reproduction. They are larger for the male and smaller for the female. Females carry eggs and offspring on them.
What are swimmerets?
A plant that loses its leaves for the winter.
What is a deciduous plant?
When a bird is doing this, it is actually oiling its feathers.
What is preening?
The system of classifying organisms.
What is taxonomy?
The mighty organelles in a cell in which nutrients are converted to energy.
What are mitochondria?
Perch: This organ helps the fish stay afloat in the water.
What is an air bladder?
In plants, a growth response to light.
What is phototropism?
The type of hair we normally see on a mammal, because that's what's on top.
What is guard hair?
A theory that has been tested by and is consistent with generations of data.
What is a scientific law?
The jelly-like fluid inside a cell in which organelles are suspended.
What is cytoplasm?
The two letter set that represents the alleles an organism possesses for a certain trait.
What is genotype?
The part of the fungus responsible for extracellular digestion and absorption of the digested food.
What is the mycelium?
This body part senses vibrations in the water, and alerts fish and sharks to movements in the water.
What is the lateral line?
Name two of the four criteria for life.
1. All life forms contain DNA.
2. All life forms have a method by which they extract energy from their surroundings and convert it to energy which sustains them.
3. All life forms can sense changes in their surroundings and respond to those changes.
4. All life forms reproduce.
The process by which certain gases (primarily water vapor, carbon dioxide, and methane) trap heat that would otherwise escape the earth and radiate into space.
What is the greenhouse effect?
The vibrating membrane attached to the ventral nerve cord, located on the 1st segment of the abdomen (seen on the grasshopper)
What is the tympanic membrane?