Cells
made of many cells
The diffusion of water across a cell membrane
What is osmosis?
The passing of traits from parent to offspring
What is Heredity?
deoxyribonucleic acid
What is DNA?
solidified remains or imprints of a once living organism
What is a Fossil?
The level of classification after order
What is family?
structures within a cell
What is organelles?
Process by which plants use sunlight, water and CO2 to make food
What is Photosynthesis?
The trait that always shows in a genotype
What is a dominant trait ?
the building block of the DNA molecule
What is the Nucleotide?
the breeding of organisms that have a certain desired trait
What is selective breeding?
the science of identifying, classifying and naming living things
organelles in cells that store water and other liquids
What is the vacuole?
division of a cell where its genetic material is duplicated and the cell splits in two
What is mitosis?
The trait that can be masked or hidden in a genotype with the presence of a dominant trait
What is a recessive trait?
A change in the order of the bases in an organism's DNA
What is Mutation?
the process by which organisms with favorable traits survive and reproduce at a higher rate than those without that trait
What is Natural Selection?
kingdom that contains bacteria that thrive in extreme environments
cell organelle that digests waste and worn out cell parts "stomach" of the cell
What is the Lysosome?
a coiled structure of DNA and protein that forms in the cell nucleus during mitosis
What is chromosomes?
Segments of DNA that carry hereditary instructions and are passed from parent to offspring
What are Genes?
Tool used to predict outcomes in Mendelian genetics
What is the Punnett Square?
Determining the age of an object or event in years; usually by measuring the amount of unstable atoms in the sample
What is Absolute dating?
nonliving factors in the environment
What is abiotic?
cell organelle that packages proteins for movement out of the cell
What is the Gogli complex?
the end result of mitosis producing two identical cells
What is Cytokinesis?
The different forms of a single gene
What are Alleles?
1 of the 4 nitrogen bases in DNA that pairs with the base thymine
the division of the Earth's history into distinct intervals of time
What is the Geologic Time Scale?
the part of the earth where life exists
What is the biosphere?
a series of tubes in a cell where packaged proteins are moved out of the cell
What is the Endoplasmic Reticulum?
the region that holds chromatids together when a chromosome is copied
What is the Centromere?
an organism's inherited appearance
What is phenotype?
1 of the 4 nitrogen bases in DNA that pairs with guanine
What is Cytosine?
the period in the geologic time scale beginning about 570 mya and ending about 65 mya.
What is the Paleozoic era?
all the populations of different species that live and interact in an area
What is community?