Cells & Energy
Cells with a nucleus and membrane-bound organelles.
What are eukaryotes?
DNA is fundamentally a source of this.
What is information?
The Philosophical belief that nothing exists apart from nature.
What is naturalism (or materialism)?
The study of plants.
What is botany?
95% of all animals are in this category.
What are invertebrates?
Nutrients are converted to energy in this organelle.
What is the Mitochondrion?
A section of DNA that contains the code to produce a protein.
What is a gene?
The theory that an organism can transform into a more specialized version of that organism.
What is microevolution?
Angiosperms are more commonly referred to as these.
What are flowering plants?
The most populous phylum of invertebrates.
What is Arthropoda?
The form of energy produced by cellular respiration.
What is ATP?
Two-letter set that represents the alleles for a given trait.
What is genotype?
The hypothesis that an organism can transform into a completely different kind of organism.
What is macroevolution?
The two types of cones on gymnosperms.
What are pollen cones and seed cones?
This allows embryos to develop on land.
What is an amniotic egg?
The photosynthetic organelle.
What is a chloroplast?
The observable expression of an organism's genes.
What is phenotype?
The sudden appear of numerous new life forms in the fossil record.
What is the Cambrian Explosion?
A "leaf" that develops as part of the seed.
What is a cotyledon?
This allows embryos to be nourished by the mother's blood supply.
What is the placenta?
The waste product of photosynthesis.
What is oxygen?
The process of converting the information in mRNA to proteins.
What is translation?
The concept that certain biological systems are too complex to have evolved.
What is irreducible complexity?
A life cycle with multicellular diploid and haploid forms.
What is alternation of generations?
This group includes the duck-billed platypus and echidna.
What are Monotremes?