Cell Differentiation & Genetic Variation
This term refers to difference in traits or genes
What is genetic varition
These are the basic building blocks of any organism--the smallest unit of life
What are cells
This term refers to an organism's ability to survive and reproduce
What is fitness
This term refers to a factor or variable that may help grow or reduce a population
What is a limiting factor
This term refers to part of an explanation that is a single sentence response to a research question. It is the beginning of an explanation
What is a claim
Genes are regions of DNA that code for ______________
What are proteins
This term refers to a group of organs working together to perform whole, complex functions
What are organ systems
These are random changes in DNA that give rise to new traits
What are mutations
This term refers to the maximum population size an ecosystem can hold and is determined by many factors like food, space, disease, etc.
What is carrying capacity
This term refers to the part of an explanation where you expand your ideas and apply science concepts that we have learned to support your response.
What is reasoning
This process of division of egg and sperm cells involve crossing over and independent assortment to generate more genetic variation among offspring
What is meiosis
A collection of these working together form organs.
What are tissues?
This term refers to something in the environment that determines whether a trait is good for survival or not
This terms refers to a species that is greatly connected in an ecosystem and has a major impact on the stability of an ecosystem
What is the keystone species
These are some of the things we look for when we ask for evidence to support your response.
What are data, specific numbers, references to chart and figures.
This term refers to the concept that cells that form different tissues or organs do not contain the same proteins and because of this, they will look and function differently
What is cell differentiation
This organ system functions in body movement, structure, AND makes new blood cells
What is the skeletal system
This process takes a very long time and essentially is how populations change over time in response to selection pressures, where populations accumulate more helpful traits and harmful traits will become nonexistent
What is natural selection
This term refers to an idea with goals and steps to help protect or conserve species, lands, and waters. It must consider the wants and needs of interest holders.
What is a conservation plan
This term refers to a variable that will change in response to something else changing
What is a dependent variable
This term refers to the concept that when genes are activated, they will undergo the process of being decoded and proteins will be assembled as a result of the instructions from the decoding.
What is gene expression
These two systems working together perform the following functions: As food is consumed, your heart rate increases and blood vessels expand to cause more blood to flow at a faster pace. This blood travels to organs that break down your food and absorb the nutrients. Nutrients carried by the blood in blood vessels are then delivered to everywhere else in your body.
What are the cardiovascular and the digestive system.
Describe how mutations and selection pressures are connected.
What is...mutations can give rise to new traits and selection pressures will act on those traits and determine if that mutation is helpful or not.
This term refers to having many different species and organisms in an area
This organ system functions in controlling the production of hormones like adrenaline and cortisol--part of the fight or flight response.
What is the endocrine system