Structures
What is a trait?
A heritable characteristic
What is Fitness?
How well an organism can survive and reproduce in its environment.
What is Natural Selection?
Tendency of the organisms that are best adapted to an environment to survive and reproduce.
What is the most basic unit of life?
What is the tallest mountain in the world?
Mount Everest
What is Adaptation?
A trait that helps an organism survive and reproduce.
What is a Species?
A group of similar organisms that can breed and produce fertile offspring.
What is Gene Flow?
Movement of alleles from one population to another.
What is Prokaryote?
An organism without a nucleus or membrane bound organelles.
What is the state flower of Texas?
Bluebonnet
What are Analogous Structures?
Body parts that share a common function, but not structure.
What is Genetic Pool?
Combined genetic information of all the members of a particular population.
What is Genetic Drift?
Random change in allele frequencies that occurs in small population.
What is Eukaryote?
An organism with a nucleus and membrane bound organelles.
What is the hardest natural material?
Diamonds
What are Homologous Structures?
Structures in a different function/species but are similar because of common ancestry.
What is Reproductive Isolation?
What is Punctuated Equilibrium?
When species evolve during short periods of rapid change.
What is Aerobic?
A requirement for oxygen.
Who won the first season of American Idol?
Kelly Clarkson
What is a Vestigal Structure?
A structure that is present in an organism but no longer serves its original purpose (ex; wisdom teeth, human tailbones)
What is Speciation?
The formation of new and distinct species in the course evolution.
What is Gradualism?
Slow, steady evolutionary change over long spans of time.
What is Anaerobic?
Not requiring oxygen.
What fiction town is the show Stranger Things set in?
Hawkins, Indiana