Key Terms
Themes in Biology
Symbiosis
100
Nitrogen is cycled between the environment and living things.
What is the Nitrogen Cycle
100
The molecule that carries the hereditary information.
What is DNA
100
The 3 types of symbiosis
What is mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism
200
things that stop the population from growing any larger
What is limiting factors
200
Small changes over time- such as the size of bird beaks changing a little in every generation.
What is Microevolution
200
type of symbiosis where one species is harmed and the other benefits.
What is parasitism
300
Ability of an organism to keep its internal environment stable in response to environmental changes.
What is homeostasis
300
The two basic theories about the origin of all life.
What is evolution and creationism.
300
Birds nest in trees. The trees are not harmed by the birds and they are not helped either.
What is Commensalism.
400
The land, water, and atmosphere organisms live in.
What is biosphere
400

Levels of Biological Organization- Biosphere, Biome, _______, Community, Population, Organism, Groups of Cells, Cells, __________, __________

What is Ecosystem, Molecules, Atoms

400
One species eats and catches another organism.
What is predation
500
Gradual replacement of one type of biological community by another through a series of changes.
What is Ecological succession
500
The 4 unifying themes in Biology.
What is cells & genes, Biological Organization, Interaction, Origins
500
Parasitic mites may invade the body of the bee. The bee loses nutrients and eventually dies.
What is Parasitism
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