Ecology
Includes all living and nonliving things in an area
What is an ecosystem?
How matter moves through ecosystems
What is recycled?
The two categories of cells (one simple and one complex)
What are prokaryote and eukaryote?
These kinds of organisms carry out photosynthesis
What are producers/autotrophs?
The word describes maintaining balance
What is homeostasis?
The type of reproduction results in 2 identical offspring and only requires 1 parent
What is asexual reproduction?
What is a gene?
Process where organisms with traits that help them survive and reproduce are more likely to pass on those traits to offspring
What is natural selection?
The number of students in our class
What is 27?
The maximum number of organisms that can be supported by the limited resources in an area
What is carrying capacity?
How energy moves through ecosystems
What is moves up trophic levels and is released as heat?
Selectively permeable part of cell that controls transport of molecules in and out of the cell
What is the cell membrane?
These kinds of organisms carry out cellular respiration
What are ALL living things (autotrophs and heterotrophs)?
How the body responds to changes to maintain homeostasis
What are feedback mechanisms?
This type of reproduction requires 2 parents and creates unique offspring
What is asexual reproduction?
Different versions of a gene
What are alleles?
When species can no longer mate and are considered 2 different species
What is speciation?
The date of the Life Science Regents
What is Thursday June 18th?
Species that disrupt an ecosystem because they come from another place and have no natural predators
What is an invasive species?
The 4 major biological macromolecules
What are carbohydrates, lipids, nucleic acids, and proteins?
Site of DNA replication and transcription
What is the nucleus?
The balanced chemical equation for photosynthesis
What is 6CO2 + 6H2O -> C6H12O6 + 6O2
The body system responsible for taking in information from the surroundings and communicating it to other parts of the body
What is the nervous system?
This special type of cell division makes haploid cells used for sexual reproduction (gametes)
What is Meiosis?
The process of turning genes "on" or "off" that results in different cells performing different functions
What is differentiation?
Diagram showing speciation events over time. Organisms closer together share a more recent common ancestor.
What is a cladogram?
The names of Mrs. Avidor's dogs
Who are Bamba and Sam?
Make all food to support an ecosystem by converting sunlight into glucose
What are producers/autotrophs?
A chemical reactions where 2 smaller molecules come together to make a bigger one and water is released
What is dehydration synthesis?
Site of cellular respiration (responsible for making ATP!)
What is the mitochondria?
The balanced chemical equation for cellular respiration
What is 6O2 + C6H12O6 -> 6CO2 + 6H2O + ATP
The body system responsible for using chemical messengers called hormones to send signals through the body
What is the endocrine system?
These are the ways that variation are introduced during sexual reproduction (4 ways)
What are fertilization, independent assortment, crossing over, and mutations?
What are somatic cells?
Structures that no longer have a use but remain as evidence of a prior ancestor
What is vestigial structure?
Mrs. Avidor's favorite candy
What are sour patch kids (watermelon)?
Ecosystems with the greatest chance of surviving change have a high degree of this.
What is biodiversity?
Elements found in nucleic acids
What are carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and phosphorus?
Site of photosynthesis (makes glucose)
What is chloroplast?
The element that is moved between Earth's spheres through cellular respiration and photosynthesis
What is carbon?
The body system responsible for transporting oxygen, nutrients, and chemical messengers throughout the body
What is the circulatory system?
These are the 2 copies of the same chromosome that each diploid cell has. 1 copy is inherited from each parent.
What are homologous chromosomes?
The process performed in the ribosome that turns genetic code into a protein
What is translation?
The 4 pieces of evidence for evolution
What are fossil record, comparative anatomy, molecular similarities, and embryology?
The date of Mrs. Avidor's wedding
What was April 2, 2026?