Ecosystems
A living organism, dead bodies, and waste products are examples of this.
What is a biotic factor
The process of organisms with non-favorable traits dying and favorable traits surviving and reproducing in order to pass their genes.
What is Natural Selection
This process involves a population suffering from a tragedy that only few survive, forming a new species.
What is the Bottleneck Effect
This kingdom refers to the unique group of decomposers that is also a homophone with what Mr. Spokely is.
What is Kingdom Fungi
This process is what scientists use to explore new ideas and experiment.
What is the scientific method
This term is what we use to identify a group of populations.
What is a community
This trial ended with a teacher, who was teaching evolution in class, being found guilty and fined $100.
What is the Scopes Trial
This type of isolation occurs when species are separated by some geographical barrier, forming two new species as the outcome.
What is Geographical Isolation
What is Domain Bacteria
This is the reproductive part of a fungus.
What is a mushroom
The essential factors for an ecosystem to survive.
What are mineral nutrients, energy, water, oxygen, and living organisms
What is Coevolution
This effect describes a small group of a population leaving the total population, creating a new species as they reproduce and adapt to their new environment.
What is the Founder's Effect
This specific protist is the start of mostly every oceanic food chain. (it is algae)
What are phytoplankton
What is mycelium
The role and position a species has in its environment.
What is an ecological niche
This structure displays relationships between organisms as they are shared, but are used for different functions. (this contributes to the argument of evolution)
What is a homologous structure
This type of isolation occurs when organisms start to become anatomically different.
What is Mechanical Isolation
These woody vascular seed plants produce seeds that are not enclosed by an ovary or fruit.
What are gymnosperms
This is the term scientists use to refer to the interaction between living organisms in a habitat.
What is Biocenosis
A species that has a disproportionately large effect on its environment.
What is a keystone species
This occurs when closely related species evolve different traits due to different environmental pressures
What is Divergent Evolution
This mechanism of evolution is a random process that causes the frequency of alleles in a population to change.
What is Genetic Drift
This protist has a unique photoreactor and eyespot that reacts and draws the organism towards sunlight, allowing it to find optimal positioning for photosynthesis.
What is Euglena
This is what makes up the cell wall of Archaea bacteria, which differentiates it from Bacteria.
What is pseudopeptidoglycan