Cellular Reproduction and DNA
Viruses are not alive; bacteria are
What is the major difference between viruses and bacteria?
An organism that causes disease
What is a pathogen?
An animal that lacks a backbone
What is an invertebrate?
Growth response to light
What is phototropism?
These eggs have leathery shells
What are reptile eggs?
The science that studies how characteristics are passed from parent to offspring
What is genetics?
An organism that feeds on a living host
What is a parasite?
The end of an animal that contains its head
What is the anterior end?
Growth response to gravity
What is gravitropism?
These eggs have a hard, calcified shell
What are bird eggs?
A sequence of 3 nucleotide bases on mRNA that refers to a specific amino acid
What is a codon?
An organism that requires oxygen
What is an aerobic organism?
Masses of nerve cell bodies
What are ganglia?
Growth response to touch
What is thigmotropism?
Animals that can regulate their own body temperature
What are endothermic animals?
DNA coiled around and supported by proteins, found in the nucleus of the cell
What is a chromosome?
Organisms that make their own food
What are autrophic organisms?
Often called "round worms"
What are members of p.Nematoda?
Flowers with both stamens and carpels
What are perfect flowers?
There is a complete separation of Oxygen rich and poor blood
The main advantage of a 4 chambered heart?
The process by which a diploid cell forms gametes
What is meiosis?
Unhindered growth during times of abundant resources allowing for a massive population
What is exponential growth?
What is bilateral symmetry?
What is nastic movement?
21 days for this to hatch
What is a chicken egg?