Genetics
Word for two alleles that are the same
What is homozygous?
Person responsible for much of what is thought about evolution
Part of the Earth that supports life
What is the biosphere?
Name for a round bacterium
What is a coccus?
Type of symmetry for a round animal
What is radial?
Type of dominance that leads to a blending of alleles because neither allele is dominant
What is incomplete dominance?
Term that means "ability to survive and reproduce successfully"
What is fitness?
% of energy that is transferred from one trophic level to another
What is 10%?
Color of a Gram positive bacterium
What is purple?
True body cavity
What is a coelom?
% of offspring that are heterozygous if one parent is RR and one parent is Rr
What is 50%
In the taxonomic hierarchy, the term for many classes grouped together
What is a phylum?
These organisms are represented by the lowest trophic level on an energy pyramid
What are autotrophs?
Two parts of every virus
What is nucleic acid and capsid?
Name for the way animals consume food
What is an ingestive heterotroph?
The phenotypic ratio of a cross between two organisms that are heterozygous for two traits
What is 9:3:3:1?
Domain in which all animals, plants, protists, and fungi are in
What is Eukarya?
Role that an organism plays in its ecosystem
What is a niche?
Molecule in cell wall that is responsible for color of Gram stained bacteria
What is peptidoglycan?
Name for an organism that produces both eggs and sperm
What is a hermaphrodite?
Hardy Weinberg equation
What is p+q=1?
What is p2 + 2pq + q2 = 1?
Another name for "survival of the fittest"
What is natural selection?
Type of growth pattern where there are plenty of resources available
What is exponential growth?
Virus that lies dormant in an organism for months to years
What is a lysogenic virus?
Type of sexual reproduction in which eggs do not need to be fertilized
What is parthenogenesis?