Unit 3
What is Speciation?
Speciation is the formation of new and distinct species in the course of evolution.
What is natural selection?
True or False... Nitrates are not in the nitrogen cycle.
False
What is ecology?
The type of biology that deals with relations of organisms.
What does Biology mean?
The studies of life.
What is the Cell Theory?
The cell theory is all the cells working together to make your body function
Are there DNA testings?
Yes
What is photosynthesis?
the process by which green plants and some other organisms use sunlight to synthesize foods from carbon dioxide and water. Photosynthesis in plants generally involves the green pigment chlorophyll and generates oxygen as a byproduct.
In this unit where did we study wolves from?
Yellowstone
True or false? Chimps and Humans are alike.
True
Can you Explain meosis?
A type of cell division that results in four daughter cells each with half the number of chromosomes of the parent cell, as in the production of gametes and plant spores.
What does DNA stand for?
deoxyribonucleic acid
What is another name for cell membrane?
Plasma Membrane.
What is it called when animals get used to a new enviorment?
Adaptation or natural selection
What is a allele?
One or Two forms of a gene that ends of creating a living thing.
Is mitosis in the cell Cycle?
What does evolution stand for?
It is the process of how living organisms change.
In the cell theory are all cells reproduced by preexisting cells?
Yes
What is an ecosystem?
It is an area where most living things eat and live.
Asexual and Sexual.
What is an Allele and what is its function?
One of two or more alternative forms of a gene that arise by mutation and are found at the same place on a chromosome.
what is fossil record?
The amount of times a fossil has been found.
What 3 scientists came up with the cell theory?
Robert Moore
Zacharias Janssen
Mattias Schleiden
What is an enviorment?
A area where living things operate.
What is the difference between sexual and asexual reproduction?
Asexual is one parent.
Sexual is two