The idea that more "fit" organisms are more likely to reproduce
What is survival of the fittest? (or natural selection)
The model of evolution that looks like a tree
What is the tree of life? (or phylogenetic tree)
Prokaryotes that live in more extreme environments than bacteria can
What are archaea?
The part of mushrooms that produce spores
What are gills?
The eight taxa of taxonomy
What are domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species?
The event that introduced sin into the world
What is the Fall?
The domain that includes eukaryotic cells
What is Eukarya?
The process of a prokaryotic cell splitting to create two identical daughter cells
What is binary fission?
Hair-like structures that allow certain protozoans to move
What are cilia? (s. cilium)
The robotics team with the number 11473
Who is Wixom Christian Robotics?
The theory that says everything came from nothing that exploded
What is the big bang theory?
A chart composed of yes/no questions about characteristics of an organism
What is a dichotomous key?
The environment where bacteria live inside or on an organism
What is a microbiome?
Plant cell walls are made of cellulose, fungal cell walls are made of this
What is chitin?
The Platonic solid consisting of 20 equilateral triangles
What is an icosahedron?
Types of structures that are similarly shaped, but in different organisms
What are homologous structures?
A trait that "evolves" in a certain animal, and shows up in all future offspring
What is a derived trait?
The "active" and "latent" phases a virus goes through as it infects an organism
What are the lytic and lysogenic cycles?
A protozoan description meaning "able to move"
What is motile?
What is Equus caballus?
The classification of organisms by kinds (ends in -ology)
What is baraminology?
The naming convention that includes genus and then species
What is binomial nomenclature?
The name of the process of a virus sharing information with a bacterium
What is transduction?
This fungus turns insects into zombies
What is Cordyceps?
The 1 seed for the Midwest in March Madness
Who is Michigan?