Climate Change
The trapping of the sun's heat energy in the Earth's atmosphere by carbon dioxide, water vapor, and the ozone.
What is the Greenhouse Effect?
Another name for the genetic instructions found in the nucleus of a cell.
What is DNA?
The 19th century invention that led to the discovery of bacteria and microbes.
What is the Microscope?
The offspring of a male donkey and a female zebra.
What is a Débra?
The process of organisms creating offspring.
What is Reproduction?
The amount of certainty the IPCC determined having that climate change is caused by human activity.
How much is 99%?
The term for all of an organisms genes.
What is a Genome?
The result of communal agriculture and written records among large groups of people.
What is Civilization?
An 'X' shaped structure of nucleic acids found in the nucleus carrying genetic information.
What is a Chromosome?
A detectable (felt) change in the internal or external environment.
What is Stimuli?
The lowest layer (or level) of the Earth's atmosphere.
What is the Troposphere?
A recipe is instructions to make a dish like a gene is instructions to make a ______.
What is Protein?
The amount of all habitable land on Earth dedicated to either farming or ranching.
How much is 50%?
The cell formed when reproductive cells fuse.
What is a Zygote?
Any kind of living organism that is not native to an ecosystem and can possibly cause it harm or imbalance.
What is an Invasive Species?
A molecular combination of substances suspended and dispersed in air or gas.
What are Aerosols?
The first step of a genetic modification.
What is Choosing a Desirable Trait?
The approximate year the world population reached 1 billion.
What is 1800?
The step in the cell cycle where a newly duplicated DNA is separated and two new cells are formed.
What is Mitosis?
A substance or non-material property that can be replenished in the same (or less) amount of time as it takes to drain the supply.
What is a Renewable Resource?
A very diverse ecosystem on Earth going through a decaying process called "bleaching".
What are Coral Reefs?
The process of coating gold particles with copies of a transgene to shoot them into the cells of a recipient organism.
What is the Gene Gun Method?
A very important cereal plant to humans and livestock grown in temperate climates.
What is Wheat?
One of the world's most popular plant hybrids directly stemming from an experiment at the University of California Irvine in the 1920s.
What is an Onion?
The amount of food the average American person eats in a day.
How much is Four Pounds?