The Circle of Life
this type of species has a disproportionately large impact on the ecosystem.
What is a keystone species?
This process uses sunlight to produce glucose
What is photosynthesis?
This is the variable that scientists change on purpose
What is the independent variable?
These are passed down through heredity from parent to offspring
What are genes?
This is a change over time due to survival and reproduction
What is natural selection?
These diagrams show how energy flows through trophic levels.
What is an energy pyramid?
This is the molecule that our body uses for energy.
This is the variable that is measured or observed
What is the dependent variable?
This process produces genetically different gametes.
What is meiosis?
A feature that increases an organism's chance of survival in called this.
What is an adaptation?
This shows the complex feeding relationships between organisms in an ecosystem
What is a food web?
The molecule that is produced during photosynthesis and used during cellular respiration
What is glucose?
This group is used for comparison in an experiment.
What is the control group?
This diagram shows possible genetic outcomes from two parents.
What is a punnett square?
This process creates genetic variation through reproduction
What is meiosis?
When a predator is removed and prey overpopulate, this type of ecological event occurs
what is a trophic cascade?
These are needed to start the process of photosynthesis
What is water, sunlight, and carbon dioxide?
These factors stay the same throughout the experiment
What are controlled variables/constants?
These type of genes take over if inherited.
This double stranded molecule carries genetic information.
What is DNA?
These are non living factors like temperature or natural disasters that limit population size
What are density independent limiting factors/
This is the chemical equation for a certain process:
6O2 + C6H12O6 -> 6CO2 + 6H2O + ATP
What is cellular respiration?
This is a testable prediction that connects the independent and dependent variables.
What is a hypothesis?
This is considered to be the physical appearance of an organism
What is a phenotype?
This is the second step of protein synthesis where proteins are made from RNA.
What is translation?