Ecosystem
This abiotic factor gives energy to the entire ecosystem
What is the sun?
This part of the cell has genetic information.
What is the nucleus?
Gas cars create this type of greenhouse gas
What is carbon dioxide (CO2)?
When a species dies forever
What is going extinct?
The 4 bases of DNA
What are A, T, C and G?
Another name for plants.
What is producer or autotroph?
Another name for energy
What is ATP?
Contamination of the environment (in the water, air, or soil)
What is pollution?
The fight for limited resources
What is competition?
The 4 bases of RNA
What are A, U, C and G?
These organisms recycle nutrients from dead matter back into the ecosystem
What are decomposers?
Allows molecules to move in and out of the cell
What is the cell membrane?
Name one human activity that can contribute to global climate change (global warming or the greenhouse effect. Same thing)
Burning fossil fuels, deforestation, etc.
Characteristic or trait that helps organism to survive in its environment, or outcompete other members of its species
What is adaptation?
In a gel electrophoresis, the smallest bands of DNA will move the ___________.
Furthest OR fastest/quickest/whatever other word to mean faster.
Explain why organisms lower on the food chain will ALWAYS have larger populations than the organisms higher on the food chain.
What are animals or consumers?
A human is born with a mutation. The mutated gene results in insulin being the incorrect shape, and the person being unable to regulate their blood glucose levels.
What body system is being effected?
The endocrine system
Removing forests for wood
What is deforestation?
2 different organisms share similar DNA or proteins.
What do these two organisms share in their evolutionary history.
What is common ancestor?
A nucleus is removed from an egg cell. It is then replaced with a body cell nucleus. This newly created cell is then placed into a uterus to grow, develop, and be born.
Identify this process.
What is cloning?
The ecosystem can't support a population that is higher than this...
What is carrying capacity?
-Explain why, despite this, they have such different structures and functions.
They only express certain genes (the genes that they need to carry out their function)
Process where organisms change the ecosystem, and allow other organisms to move in. This whole process could take hundreds of years.
Identify the process.
What is ecological succession?
The bones of a dead organism
What is a fossil?
Process where best traits of parents are chosen for offspring
What is selective breeding or artificial selection?