It's a bird! It's a plane! oh wait nope it's definitely a bird
The type of bird helped famous scientist Mr. Darwin figure out some of the secrets to evolution and natural selection.
What are Galapagos finches?
The type of organelle only photosynthetic organisms have in their cells.
What is Chloroplast?
The first phase of the cell cycle in which the chromosomes begin to bunch up and become visible in the middle
What is Prophase?
A famous kind of conditioning used sometimes just to make dogs drool at the ring of a bell.
What is Classical Conditioning?
The main feature on the different types of birds on the Galapagos islands that helps each individual have "the right tool for the right job"
What is a beak?
The three main types of RNA needed to create new proteins
What is mRNA, rRNA, and tRNA?
The phase of the cell cycle in which the chromosomes are lined up in the middle
What is Metaphase?
Famous scientist credited with the theory of evolution through natural selection
Who is Charles Darwin?
The reason that scientists Peter and Rosemary Grant experienced a mass dying off of smaller beaked fiches in 1977
What is a drought?
Believed to be the first type of cell ever to exist, these single celled organisms have no nucleus.
What is a Prokaryote?
This part of the cell cycle when the cell divides its DNA and cytoplasm, forming new cells, this phase includes: Prophase, Metaphase, Anaphase, and Telophase.
What is Mitosis?
When the maximum number of individuals, in one species, an environment can support is "capped off"
What is Carrying Capacity?
Besides appearance this trait keeps males and females from different species from mating.
What is a bird call/song?
There is a rough and smooth one of these membrane bound organelles
What is an endoplasmic reticulum?
Something that happens in-between each phase of the cell cycle to make sure everything goes correctly.
What is a checkpoint?
These are used in transcription to start and stop the ribosome from translating the RNA.
What are codons?
A great example of this term being how all of the finches on the Galapagos islands are descended from one original finch but all now have very different jobs and ways to feed themselves.
What is adaptive radiation?
The reciprocal process to photosynthesis where sugars are broken down into an energy usable by a cell
What is Cellular Respiration?
Phase where a cell is no longer dividing and is outside of the regular cycle, permanently or temporarily just for a shorter period of time.
What is the G0/Resting phase?
Where sister chromatids are held together
What are centromeres?