Diversity & Survival
Habitat & Lifestyle
Asexual & Sexual Reproduction
Genetics & Variation
Selection & Extinction
100
Changes that occur in the anatomical structure of an organism.
What are structural adaptations?
100
This includes where an organism lives and what it does.
What is an organism's niche?
100
Traits that can be passed on either through sexual or asexual reproduction.
What are heritable traits?
100
Traits that show a wide range of possibilities.
What is continuous variation?
100
One of the first uses of modern biotechnology in medicine was to move this human gene into bacteria.
What is insulin?
200
A comparison of the number of species to the total number of organisms in an area.
What is a diversity index?
200
Organisms that live over a wide area that can survive on a variety of food sources.
What are generalists?
200
Four types of asexual reproduction.
What are binary fission, spores, meristem cells, and budding?
200
Ultra-violet rays, x-rays, and chemicals may cause this to occur.
What is a mutation?
200
Genetically modified.
What is transgenic?
300
The formula for calculating the diversity index.
What is number of runs divided by the number of specimens?
300
The symbiotic relationship in which one organism benefits, and one is harmed.
What is parasitism?
300
The fertilized egg containing information from both parents forms this first cell.
What is a zygote?
300
This type of trait will always present itself.
What is a dominant trait?
300
Choosing individual characteristics to produce desirable offspring.
What is artificial selection?
400
When you have a large variety of species within a given area.
What is large variation?
400
When resources become scarce, this may occur.
What is competition?
400
This form of reproduction increase species variation.
What is sexual reproduction?
400
These cells have 46 chromosomes.
What are somatic cells?
400
This theory explains how the processes of artificial selection occur in nature.
What is the theory of natural selection?
500
An owl hunting at night is an example of this.
What is a behavioural adaptation?
500
These organisms tend to have low populations and live in the tropics.
What are specialists?
500
The two ways that fertilization can occur.
What are internal fertilization and external fertilization?
500
This type of cell division results in identical offspring.
What is mitosis?
500
The current extinction rate of species in the world.
What is 70 species per day?
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