Energy in Life
The primary source of all energy is
The Sun
The consumer that eats a plant.
Primary Consumer
The process by which organisms better adapted to an environment will be more likely to survive and reproduce, passing those adaptations to their offspring.
Natural Selection
A change in an organism's DNA that alters the information contained in the DNA.
Mutation
The seven characteristics of life include:
1. Organization, 2. Metabolism, 3. Homeostasis, 4. Response to stimuli, 5. Adaptation, 6. Reproduction and heredity, 7. Growth and development
Organisms that can produce energy-rich molecule as their food source.
Producers
An animal that eats a primary consumer.
A Secondary Consumer
This scientist is well know for proposing the concept of natural selection in his book On the Origin of Species.
Charles Darwin
The sum of all chemical reactions occurring in an individual cell to sustain life.
Metabolism
When plants cells do not get enough water, they cannot stay rigid. The loss of rigidity allows them to absorb more water, which is an example of this Characteristic of Life.
Response to Stimuli
Organisms that must eat other organisms for food.
Consumers
An animal that eats another animal, the final consumer, or top carnivore.
Tertiary Consumer
In any given population, the organisms are not all alike. These differing abilities to respond to changes in the environment is called
Variation
The chemical reactions occurring in an individual cell that BREAK DOWN complex molecules into simple ones, releasing energy that the organism can use.
Catabolism
This molecule transmits information from parent to offspring.
DNA
Organisms that decompose dead organisms.
Decomposers
A bear is eating berries in the meadow, this is an example of which trophic level.
Primary Consumer
In natural selection, any characteristics that are able to passed along to the next generation are called
Heritability
(Heredity)
The chemical reactions that BUILD complex molecules from simple ones, usually requiring the input of energy.
Anabolism
Put these biological level of organization in order from the smallest to the largest: biosphere, system of organs, molecule, organelle, ecosystem, cell, organ, organism, tissue, population, community, atom, biome.
Atom, Molecule, Organelle, Cell, Tissue, Organ, Systems of Organs, Organisms, Population, Community, Ecosystem, Biome, Biosphere.
The intricate relationship regarding energy flow in nature between organisms in traditionally shown in this structure. For example: Sun to grass to grasshopper to Mouse to Snake to Eagle to Fungi.
Food Chain
For dinner you eat a salad with chicken. Eating the chicken represents which trophic level.
Tertiary Consumer
"Survival of the fittest," represents which mechanism of natural selection
Competition
The process by which a cell becomes specialized to perform a specific set of tasks.
Differetiation
List the eight dividsions of taxonomy, starting with the broadest and ending with the narrowest.
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Domain Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genius Species