Reproduction
The number of chromosomes in a healthy, adult cell.
What is 46?
The name for a genotype that has either two dominant alleles (AA), or two recessive (aa).
What is homozygous?
This term describes the variety of life in a particular habitat or ecosystem.
What is biodiversity?
What is the term for the practice of protecting species in their natural habitat?
What is conservation?
This term describes the relationship where one organism benefits at the expense of another.
What is parasitism?
The first single-celled organism created after fertilization.
What is a zygote?
The combination of alles.
Genotype
What is it called when organisms develop traits that help them survive in their environment?
What is adaptation?
In a predator-prey relationship, when the prey population decreases, what population change would you expect in the predator?
What is a decrease?
This relationship between two different species where both benefit is known as what?
What is mutualism?
List two advantages, and two disadvantages of sexual reproduction.
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A genotype that contains one dominant allele, and one recessive. (Aa)
What is heterozygous?
Spiders have the ability to walk on their own webbing without sticking to it. What type of adaptation is this?
What is a structural/physical adaptation?
When species are completely gone from the Earth and no longer exist.
What is extinction?
This term describes organisms that can live in a variety of environments and eat a wide range of foods.
What is generalist?
These cells can be released by millions at a time from a mushroom or fungus, and can create identical offspring.
What are spores?
The term for the visual, physical representation of a gene.
What is phenotype?
During the winter months, bears go into month-long hibernations. This is an example of what type of adaptation?
What is a behavioural adaptation?
This term describes a species that has been entirely wiped out from an area, but still exists in other parts of the world.
What is Extirpation?
This term refers to a species that has a narrow range of niches in its ecosystem.
What is a specialist?
In this form of asexual reproduction, a small growth on an organism eventually falls off and becomes a separate, identical organism.
What is budding?
Somatic cells undergo this process when dividing.
What is Mitosis?
Provide an example of variation within a species, and between 2 species.
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This term describes an organism's role in it's environment, including what it eats and how it reproduces.
What is a niche?
This term describes the relationship where one organism benefits while the other is neither helped nor harmed.
What is commensalism?