Vocab
change over time
What is evolution
The first infection symptom Addie had
Does not grow linear but doubles over time
What is exponential growth?
can be passed on from parents to offspring
What is a gene?
An educated guess
What is a hypothesis?
group of organisms that can interbreed and produce fertile offspring in nature
What is a species?
The first type of infection Addie had
What is staph or what is MRSA
What bacteria grows on in a Petri dish
What is agar?
What is a mutation?
first part of the scientific process.
What is a question?
natural selection favors one of the extreme variation of a trait
What is direction selection?
What is ECMO?
what you use to treat bacterial infections because it kills bacteria
Antibiotic
when evolution happens by chance
the part of an experiment that is not being tested and is used for comparison
What is a control?
the number of offspring produced not how long you survive
The second infection that Addie got
What is stenotrophmonas?
requires a host to live
Viruses
alternative forms of a gene for each variation of a trait of an organism
What is an allele?
the part of the experiment that is being tested or the part that is changed by the person doing the experiment
What is the independent variable?
when an ancestral species evolves into an array of species to fit a number of diverse habitats
What is adaptive radiation?
The reason Addie got better, than worse, than better and worse
a non living thing that infects you
What is a virus?
all the alleles in a population’s genes