Variation
There are characteristics passed from parents to offspring
What are heritable characteristics
This is the scientific term for eggs and sperm
What are gametes?
This is when a single celled organism splits into 2 identical cells.
What is binary fusion?
This is when both species benefit.
What is mutualism?
When an animal disappears from a local area
What is extirpation?
These are characteristics gained on your own
What are non-heritable characteristics
This is the process when a male and female gamete join together.
What is fertilization?
This is when a parent cell produces a small version of itself, which may or may not detach.
What is budding?
This is when one species benefits and one is harmed.
What is parasitism?
The type of cell division that produces four non-identical daughter cells with only half the chromosomes as other cells
What is meiosis?
This is the type of variation that is one option or another.
What is discrete variation
The four stages of sexual reproduction in order
Fertilization, zygote, cell division, embryo
This is the process non-flowering plants use to reproduce, as well as mushrooms.
What are spores?
Using this genetic technology, researchers have isolated a gene that produces an antifreeze protein from a cold water flounder and inserted it into the DNA of tomatoes to make them frost resistant.
What is genetic engineering?
A type of cell division that produces two identical daughter cells
What is mitosis?
This within a species ensures that if conditions change some individuals within a species can survive
What is variation or diversity?
This is the male gamete of a plant.
What is pollen?
This is how strawberry plants reproduce
What are runners? (or vegetative reproduction)
When a species disappears from a local area
What is extirpation?
This is the role of an organism and all its interactions in its environment.
What is a niche?
This is variation that occurs over a spectrum.
What is continuous variation
This is when the pollen of a plant is transferred to another plant.
What is cross-fertilization? (or what is cross-pollination?)
This is how the DNA of offspring compares to the parent in asexual reproduction
What is identical?
This area of the world has the most species diversity
This is when the environment "chooses" which individuals will survive to reproduce
What is natural selection?