Exam 1
One of the major threats to biodiversity defined as "the unsustainable use of nonrenewable resources."
What is overexploitation?
The two fundamental needs of all organisms are _____
What is an energy source to make ATP and a carbon source to make C-C bonds?
The balance of water and electrolytes is _____.
What is osmoregulation?
The type of asexual reproduction performed by prokaryotes.
What is binary fission?
Archea are more closely related to this domain of life
What are eukaryotes?
In an effort to save salamanders from Bsal, you take the individual out of the habitat and raise them in captivity to later reintroduce them into their habitat. The method of preserving biodiversity is called ______
What is ex-situ conservation?
A type of Horizontal gene transfer where bacteria tale up free DNA released by other bacteria.
What is transformation?
An organism that's internal temperature matches that of the external environment.
What is an ecotherm?
This type of fertilization is directive in where they put their eggs and sperm, but it does happen outside of the body
What is nonbroadcast spawning?
These two organelles most likely arose via endosymbiosis?
What are Chloroplast and Mitochondria?
The human tailbone is an example of _____
What is a vestigial trait?
An organism that gets its energy from the sun and its carbon from inorganic molecules like CO2 is _____
What is a photoautotroph?
The vascular plants include
What are ferns and allies, angiosperms, and gymnosperms?
The haploid unicellular structures used for dispersal in bryophytes, ferns, and allies
What are spores?
This type of speciation happens through geographic isolation.
What is allopatric speciation?
What is codominance?
In this type of organism, each cell can perform all the cellular functions that it needs to survive and reproduce
What is simple multicellularity?
This feeding strategy includes feeding on organic matter that they live in or on by burrowing.
What is substrate feeding?
Plasmodium falciparum (Malaria) is an example of a ______
Haploid dominant life stage
The 4 types of asexual reproduction that use mitosis____.
What are budding, vegetative reproduction, parthenogenesis, and fragmentation?
What is
1. No Selection 2. No Mutation 3. No migration 4. Large Population 5. Random Mating
A puffer fish inflating in response to the presence of a predator is _____.
What is an inducible response?
What are oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, calcium, and phosphorus?
The processes in which meiosis and fertilization create genetic variation in offspring.
1. Independent Assortment 2. Crossing-over 3. mixing of gametes between unrelated individuals
A type of external reproduction where an organism will direct where it puts its eggs and sperm.
What is non-broadcast spawning?