Evolution
Ecology
Ecology II
Evolution II
Reproduction and Genetics
100
Father of the theory of natural selection.
Who was Charles Darwin?
100
How organisms interact with their environment.
What is Ecology?
100
The variety of life on earth.
What is biodiversity?
100
Variations in species exist because of this form of reproduction.
What is sexual reproduction?
100
Cell division that creates two identical diploid cells.
What is Mitosis?
200
The theory that modern species evolved from earlier, different species and share a common ancestor.
What is evolution?
200
The maximum size that a population can sustain.
What is carrying capacity?
200
One of many roles within an ecosystem.
What is a niche?
200
A permanent change in the DNA sequence that makes up a gene.
What is mutation?
200
This process produces plants and animals with the most desired traits.
What is selective breeding?
300
Another way of saying that an organism is better adapted to its environment.
What is "fit"?
300
Found at the bottom of a food pyramid, these autotrophs convert sunlight into usable energy.
What are producers?
300
This environment concern is caused by excessive levels of Carbon Dioxide, Methane and Nitrous Oxide.
What is Global Warming?
300
The theory that evolution occurs in quick spurts.
What is punctuated equilibrium?
300
The process by which the genes of one organism are inserted into the genes of another.
What is genetic engineering or gene splicing?
400
Geological evidence of evolution, typically found beneath the earth's surface.
What are fossils?
400
These factors, including air, water, light, temperature and pH help determine which organisms can live in an ecosystem.
What are abiotic factors.
400
Abiotic and _____________ factors affect how large a population can get within an environment.
What are biotic factors (food, predators)?
400
The theory that evolutionary change occurs slowly over time.
What is gradualism?
400
Three letter codons found in DNA represent these.
What are specific amino acids?
500
The overproduction of offspring, competition for limited resources and survival/reproduction OR death.
What are factors affecting natural selection?
500
This process begins with a pioneer organism modifying an environment to make it suitable for other organisms, and ends with a climax community.
What is ecological succession.
500
The negative effects that humans have had on the environment (pollution, industrialization, over-hunting, etc.) is mostly due to this.
What is the increasing human population?
500
Creation of a new species requires geographic isolation which eventually results in this.
What is reproductive isolation?
500
In reproduction, these carry alleles for the same trait. Humans have two alleles for each gene.
What are chromosome pairs?
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