Cell Terms
Genetics
Ecology
Diversity of Organisms
Evolution
100
These types of cells do not have a cell wall or chloroplasts and have many smaller vacuoles rather than one central vacuole.
What are animal cells?
100
What the letters DNA stand for.
What is deoxyribonucleic acid?
100
The study of the interactions of living organisms with one another and with their environment.
What is ecology?
100
Complex multi-celled organisms that use photosynthesis to make their own food.
What are plants?
100
He developed the idea of evolution through natural selection.
Who is Charles Darwin?
200
A rigid structure made out of cellulose and provides support to the cell.
What is a cell wall?
200
Traits you got from your parents.
What are inherited traits?
200
A group of individuals of the same species that live in a specific geographical area at the same time.
What is a population?
200
Complex multi-celled organisms that eat other organisms for their food.
What are animals?
200
The process where biological populations change over time.
What is evolution?
300
A semi-permeable membrane that allows some materials in and out of the cell.
What is a cell membrane?
300
The physical appearance of an organism is called this.
What is a phenotype?
300
All of the living components of an ecosystem.
What are biotic factors?
300
A response that is learned by experience.
What is a learned response?
300
When an entire species dies out.
What is extinction of a species?
400
A cell structure that stores water and other materials. A plant cell has one central one of these.
What is a vacuole?
400
The advantage of this type of reproduction is a mixing of genes leading to genetic diversity.
What is sexual reproduction?
400
A diagram that shows an ecosystem's transfer of energy. A triangular diagram that shows loss of energy as food passes through the ecosystem's food chain or food web.
What is an energy pyramid?
400
A name for cold-blooded animals whose body temperature is determined by surrounding air/water temperature.
What is ectothermic?
400
Changes that occur in characteristics within a population that lead to its survival.
What is natural selection?
500
Organelles found in plant cells which use energy from the sun to change carbon dioxide and water into sugar and oxygen.
What are chloroplasts?
500
A tool used to show possible gene combinations resulting from reproduction.
What is a Punnet Square?
500
An organism that feeds on smaller plant-eating organisms.
What is a secondary organism?
500
A series of questions about an organism that, when the correct questions are chosen, an unknown organism can be identified.
What is a dichotomous key?
500
A characteristic that improves an individual's ability to survive and reproduce in a specific environment.
What is adaptation?
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