Life and RNA
One of the requirements to consider something life/living.
What is...
Growth – increase size of parts not just accumulate matter
Response – react to environmental stimuli
Heredity – Ability to evolve traits over time
Homeostasis – regulate the internal state
Metabolism – convert / use energy to perform function
Reproduce – capable of producing new organisms from the parent
Order – generally characterized by ordered structures
(Any one of these is a correct answer)
The main difference between a prokaryotic cell and a eukaryotic cell.
What is the nucleus?
Complete the statement: Evolutionary change cannot take place without ______.
What is variation?
What is common ancestor?
The name given to the hoax that claimed to be the missing link between humans and primates.
Who is Lucy?
One of the components for the Origin of life.
What is...
1. Basic elements & basic organic compounds
2. Complex biomolecule(s) capable of replication
3. Membrane enclosure
4. Selection & evolutionary change
(Any one of these as an answer is fine)
The main function of the chloroplast.
What is photosynthesis?
Name a process that drives evolution.
What is...
Natural Selection
Coevolution
Sexual Selection
Genetic Drift
(Any of these is a correct answer)
The islands that Darwin stopped at to collect specimens for his studies.
What is the Galapagos Islands?
The number of _____ correlates with the last time since organisms shared a common ancestor.
What is differences?
The one thing that can initiate DNA replication.
What is RNA?
The most explosive diversification of complex organisms ever seen on Earth.
What is the Cambrian explosion?
The man quoted as saying "This preservation of favourable variations I have called Natural Selection, or the Survival of the Fittest".
Who is Charles Darwin?
The term used to describe the adaptations of one species that causes another species to adapt in response.
What is Coevolution?
The term used for examining similar anatomy to come to a conclusion about a possible common ancestry.
What is comparative anatomy?
The man who influenced the father of evolution, making him the so called (at least by my standards) grandfather of evolution.
Who is Alfred Russel Wallace?
The name of the species dubbed "The missing link".
What is the Tiktaalik?
Define Stabilizing Selection.
What is intermediate forms are favored and extremes are eliminated because they have a disadvantage?
The evolution brought on by female selection of certain mates for exaggerated physical traits.
What is Sexual Selection?
What is grasping hand, binocular vision, large brain, and parental care and sociality?
The six stages of life beginning on Earth. (In order!)
The "Big three" of major domains of the living world.
What is Bacteria, Archaea and Eukarya?
Name the four mechanisms for Natural Selection.
What is overproduction of offspring, struggle for existence, differential survival & reproduction, and heredity/genetic variation?
List the binomial nomenclature in order.
What is Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species?
What is Ordovician, Devonian, Permian, Triassic and Cretaceous?