Ecology
Includes members of the same species in a given area
Population
Includes all populations in a given area
Community
Changes that have occurred to the Earth itself
Geologic evolution
Who believed we could inherit acquired characteristics?
Lamarck
Known as the father of genetics
Gregor Mendel
All plants are what?
Producers
Nonliving parts of the environment
Abiotic factors
Part's of an animals body that are not used
Vestigial structures
Concept that living things come from nonliving things
Spontaneous generation
Pairs of genes that carry the same trait
Alleles
Community and physical environment interacting and functioning together
Ecosystem
Relationship between two species where one benefits and one is harmed
Parasitism
Similar physical features in organisms that share a common ancestor
Homologous structures
Mating organisms with a particular trait to produce offspring with the desirable trait
Artificial selection
Tool used to predict genetic results
Punnett sqaures
Relationship where one species benefits and one is unaffected
Commensalism
Relationship where both species benefits
Mutualism
Role an organism plays in a particular environment
Niche
When the environment acts as the selecting agent for an organisms traits
Natural selection
Organisms that have two different genes/alleles for a given trait
Heterozygous or hybrid
Process/relationship between cellular respiration and photosynthesis between plants and animals
Carbon oxygen cycle
Process by which the structure of a biological community evolves over time
What are the 2 types?
Ecological succession (primary and secondary)
What are the 4 pieces of evidence for evolution?
1.) Fossils
2.) Comparative embryology
3.) Structural similarities
4.) Similarities in biochemistry
What are the 3 terms you need to associate with Charles Darwin?
1.) Natural selection
2.) Survival of the fittest
3.) Descent with modification
What are the 5 nitrogenous bases and how do they pair together in RNA?
Adenine, guanine, cytosine, thymine, uracil
A - U
T - A
G - C
C - G