Diseases
Antibiotic Resistance
Natural Selection
More Natural Selection
Cooperation/ Symbiosis
100
Organisms and particles that cause disease are called
Pathogens
100
What do you call it when antibiotics stop working against pathogens?
Antibiotic Resistance
100
What is variation?
the differences in traits among individuals of the same species
100
During a lesson about evolution, one of your fellow students remarks, 'The giraffe stretched its neck while reaching for higher leaves; its offspring inherited longer necks as a result.' Is this correct?
No. Giraffes born with longer necks were better adapted to the environment and those traits passed down.
100
What is it when 2 organisms have an interactive relationship with each other where at least one organism benefits?
Symbiotic relationship
200
True or false. Viruses and bacteria are the same
False
200
What kind of virus kills bacteria?
Bacteriophages
200
Organsims cannot evolve without changes to what?
Changes in their environment/ environmental pressures
200
What are some enviornmental pressures that would encourage natural selection?
Competition for food, shelter, water, disease
200
What kind of relationship is it when one organism benefits while the other is harmed?
Parasitic
300
What do antibodies do?
Tag antigens for destruction
300
How can we get antibiotic resistance?
When we take antibiotics too long and the bacteria mutate
300
What is natural selection?
The process whereby organisms that have advantages survive and pass their genes onto their offspring.
300
A characteristic that allows a species to live successfully in its environment is called a
adaptation
300
What is the relationship where one organism benefits while the other is unaffected?
Commensalism
400
What kind of disease causes black swellings called buboes?
Bubonic plague/Black Death/Plague
400
What is the word for organisms that have changed over a long period of time?
Evolution
400
What is the relationship where both organisms benefit?
Mutualism
500
Which statement is correct
A) Eagle ate more white mice than dark mice because they can see them better.
B)The white mice are able to reproduce more successfully than the dark mice
A