He wrote The Origin of Species and came up with the theory of natural selection
Who is Charles Darwin?
100
A disease where cells never stop dividing
What is Cancer?
100
All of the food chains in the ecosystem linked together
What is a food web?
200
They begin the Cell Mediated Response
What are the Macrophages?
200
a picture of someone's chromosomes
What is a karyotype?
200
Organisms in populations have variations in their traits that arise from random genetic mutations and the traits best suited to survive are passed on to the next generation
What is natural selection?
200
An external mutation that was caused by your actions or chance examples are exposure to radiation, carcinogens, bacteria or a virus
What are Somatic mutations?
200
Living factors that live in a particular area and depend on each other to sustain themselves are described as this
What is biotic?
300
They make antibodies
What are B-cells?
300
When two traits are both expressed by blending together
What is incomplete dominance?
300
Two not closely related species evolve similar adaptations because they inhabit the same environment.
What is convergent evolution?
300
A gene that regulates and promotes healthy cell growth
What is a proto-oncogene?
400
Killer T cells and B cells both form where
What is in the bone marrow, then the Killer T cells mature in the Thymus.
400
Crossing over occurs in this step
What is prophase 1?
400
Adaptations of two species are closely connected because they interact in an environment; an adaptation in one species drives a counter adaptation in the another
What is co-evolution?
400
Cells from a tumor enter the bloodstream and spread to different locations in the body
What is metastasis?
400
When the population of a species over exceeds the habitat's capacity to support
What is overpopulation?
500
This substance is released by the Mast cells and calls over white bloods cells to take care of invaders as the second line of defense.
What is Histamine?
500
At the end of meiosis you have created four cells that are what
What is haploid?
500
The study of changes and distribution of genes
What is population genetics?
500
To qualify for this you must have two immediate relatives that have had a sarcoma under the age of 45, most often people affected by this syndrome have two inherited P53 mutations
What is Li-Fraumeni Syndrome?
500
A population of different species occupying the same area