Molecules of Life
The 4 most important organic compounds found in living organisms.
What are proteins, lipids, carbohydrates, and nucleic acids?
All the energy Earth receives.
What is the sun?
A species that does not belong in that native ecosystem.
What is an invasive species?
Genetic population change over time.
What is evolution?
________________ are affected by natural selection but ________________ evolve.
Individuals and populations
The molecule used for short term energy.
What is carbohydrates?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
Carbon cycles through these two things.
What are living and non living things?
The largest amount in the food/energy pyramid.
What are producers?
Those with homologous structures will have similar DNA. True or False?
True.
_______________ is required within a population for natural selection
What is variation?
This element can bond to 4 different elements.
What is carbon?
Autotrophs can preform this/these process(es).
What is photosynthesis and cellular respiration?
A population leveling off and no longer grows.
What is carrying capacity?
When there are similar structures, such as a human arm, a bat wing, a whale fin, and a dog leg, this is called...
What are homologous structures?
Some survive and reproduce and others do not, which is a factor of natural selection. True or false?
True.
The building block of this biomolecule that allows long term energy storage.
What are fatty acids?
The other product produced in cellular respiration besides carbon dioxide.
What is water?
A measure of the many different types of species and organisms living in an ecosystem.
What is biodiversity?
Humans have an appendix, however there is no function for this organ. This is a type of _________ structure.
What is vestigial?
Elephants with no tusks survive more than elephants with tusks due to hunters hunting for tusks. The hunters is an example of a factor of natural selection.
What is an environmental change?
An enzyme is an example of one of the four important compounds.
What is a protein?
Moving up trophic levels, heat is being...
Lost. (by 90%)
A change in the types of organisms in an area.
What is succession?
There are 3 pieces of evidence scientists use to support evolution, or change in populations over time on Earth.
What are bone structures (fossils), DNA, and embryology?
A change in a DNA sequence can happen in natural selection.
What is a mutation?