Cell Processes
This process divides a cell's nucleus into two identical nuclei.
What is mitosis?
This term describes the variety of life in a particular habitat or ecosystem.
What is biodiversity?
This term describes the relationship where one organism benefits while the other is neither helped nor harmed.
What is commensalism?
This process leads to the survival of the fittest by favoring traits that improve survival.
What is natural selection?
This term describes the relationship where one organism benefits at the expense of another.
What is parasitism?
What is formed after the cleavage of a zygote?
What is an embryo?
What is the term for a trait that is passed from parents to offspring?
What is a hereditary trait?
What is the term for the practice of protecting species in their natural habitat?
What is conservation?
What is the term for breeding organisms with specific traits to produce desired characteristics?
What is selective breeding?
What do we call organisms that eat other organisms for energy?
What are consumers?
This type of reproduction involves only one parent and creates genetically identical offspring.
What is asexual reproduction?
The term that describes the thing that is produced from reproduction.
What is offsprings?
This type of conservation involves protecting species outside their natural habitat.
What is ex-situ conservation?
This is the name for the first cell formed when a sperm fertilizes an egg.
What is a zygote?
This term describes organisms that can live in a variety of environments and eat a wide range of foods.
What is generalist?
What term describes the process of creating two new cells from one?
What is cell division?
What is it called when organisms develop traits that help them survive in their environment?
What is adaptation?
What acronym stands for the main threats to biodiversity: Habitat loss, Invasive species, Pollution, Population, and Overharvesting?
What is HIPPO?
What is the term for the study of heredity and the variation of inherited characteristics?
What is genetics?
This term describes the close external resemblance of an animal or plant (or part of one) to another animal, plant, or inanimate object.
What is Mimicry?
This is the name for the structures that contain genetic information.
What are chromosomes?
This term describes the phenomenon where a species becomes too specialized and can’t adapt to changes.
What is specialization?
This relationship between two different species where both benefit is known as what?
What is mutualism?
This is a term for the process that leads to the formation of new species over time.
What is speciation?
This term refers to a species that has a specialized role in its ecosystem.
What is a keystone species?