Diversity of Living Things
The 6 kingdoms
What is Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Protista, Eubacteria, Archaebacteria?
The for acronym DNA
What is Deoxyribonucleic Acid?
The thin membrane surrounding the lungs
What is a pleura?
the plant hormone that ripens fruit
What is ethylene?
The change in inherited traits of a population over many years and generations
What is Evolution?
Salt-loving organisms that live in highly saline environments
What is Halophiles?
The condition in which both alleles in a heterozygous organism show.
What is Co-dominance?
Breaks down fats (lipids) into fatty acids in the Pancreas
What is Pancreatic Lipases?
The process of mixing species and habitats in an area that changes over time
What is ecological succession?
The method that is often used to determine the age of organic materials
What is radiometric dating?
In the cycle a virus hides in the DNA of the host remaining dormant for long periods
What is the lysogenic cycle?
Made up of DNA and protein they carry information for traits which are passed from parent to offspring
What are chromosomes
The smooth muscle that controls the exit of chyme into the small intestine
What is pyloric sphincter?
What is the secondary xylem
The structure with common evolutionary origin that may serve a different function in modern species
What is Homologous structures?
A dormant structure that forms inside certain bacteria in response to stress protecting the cell's chromosomes from stress.
What is Endospores?
The part in mitosis interphase where DNA is replicated forming sister chromatids containing the same genes.
The white blood cell that is specialized to engulf bacteria and microorganisms
What is agranular leukocytes?
The plants growth response to touch
What is Thigmotropism?
The structure that preforms the same function as another, but isn't similar anatomical structure
What is analogous structures?
Bacteria's that can survive with or without oxygen
What are facultative aerobes?
What is Non-disjunction?
The network of arteries and veins providing oxygen gas and nutrients to the muscle cells of the heart and removing waste
What are Coronary blood vassals?
The plant hormone that reduces growth and helps plants respond to drought
What is Abscisic acid (ABA)?
The theory that suggests that evolution occurs in rapid spurts of change followed by long periods of little or no change
What is the theory of punctuated equilibrium?