A unit of heredity transferred from a parent to offspring, that determines the characteristics of the offspring.
What is a gene?
200
A group of organisms in the same place at the same time.
What is a population?
200
How sperm and ova are made.
What is meiosis?
200
The process by which biological traits become either more or less common in a population as an effect of inherited traits on the differential reproductive success of a population.
What is Natural selection?
200
How plants make their food.
What is cellular respiration?
200
The bonds that make 2 single strands of DNA a double strand.
What are base pairs?
300
An ecosystem with a higher _____ has a greater variety of organisms.
What is biodiversity?
300
How asexual organisms reproduce.
What is mitosis?
300
The organisms with the more beneficial ______ will surpass the ones with less beneficial ______.
What are traits?
300
_____ attracts solar energy when a plant is exposed to sunlight.
What is green pigment?
300
These make up the backbone of DNA.
What are deoxyribose sugars?
400
The max population an area can hold for a sustained period of time.
What is carrying capacity?
400
The stage when variation occurs in meiosis.
What is prophase?
400
He did just as much work as Darwin, but got none of the credit.
Who is Alfred Russel Wallace?
400
six H2O + six CO2 = C6H12O6 + six O2
What is photosynthesis?
400
DNA makes RNA makes proteins.
What is the Central Dogma Theory?
500
A higher level of biodiversity means a higher level of _____ within an ecosystem.
What is stability?
500
The stages of mitosis.
What are interphase, prophase, metaphase, anaphase, and telophase?
500
Darwin got most of his research from this place, where he observed the birds.