Give me Life!
Put the following in the correct order from simplest to most complex: tissue, organ system, cell, organ.
What is Cell, Tissue, Organ, Organ System?
Nicknamed "survival of the fittest", this theory of evolution explains natural selection where organisms with certain traits are more likely to survive and reproduce.
Hint: the creator of the theory is referenced in the name.
What is Darwinism?
What is another name for the windpipe?
Trachea
Any change in a gene or chromosome is called this.
What is a mutation?
Any trace or remains of a once-living organism that has been preserved by natural processes.
What is a fossil?
Name is 1 cell structure found ONLY in plant cells?
What are the cell wall, chloroplasts, and a large central vacuole?
The cell wall provides structural support, chloroplasts perform photosynthesis, and the central vacuole stores water and maintains pressure within the cell.
This word means change through time. The theory that existing life forms have evolved from earlier forms over long periods of time.
What is evolution?
What muscle controls the lungs so you can breathe?
The diaphragm
If this type of allele is present, its trait will appear in the organism.
What is dominant?
A group of the same organism that occupies a specific area in a specific time.
What is a population?
What is the function of the mitochondria?
What is to provide energy for the cell and body?
Any kind of inherited trait that improves an organism's chances of survival and reproduction in a given environment.
What is an adaptation?
What kind of tissue connects bone to muscle?
Tendons
Genes are carried from the parent to the offspring on structures called this.
What are chromosomes?
The random appearance of a new trait in an organism.
What is a mutation?
What cell structure transports materials out of the cell?
Hint: it is nicknamed the "post office" of the cell.
What is Golgi complex?
The process whereby organisms that have advantages survive and pass their genes onto their offspring.
What is natural selection?
What substance breaks down food chemically in the mouth?
Saliva has enzymes that break down the molecules of food
This definition is when you inherit the same DNA sequence for a specific gene from each of your biological parents.
What is homozygous?
Examples of a homozygous condition: Eye color, cystic fibrosis, sickle cell anemia, dimples, curly hair.
A group of genetically similar organisms that can mate and produce fertile offspring.
What is a species?
FINAL JEOPARDY
This double-helix structure is the molecule is the molecule that contains the genetic instructions for the development, functioning, and reproduction of all known living organisms. List the full name and abbreviation for the structure.
What is DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid?