Diversity
Kingdom with cell walls made of cellulose
What is plantae?
This man beleived that traits could develop during an organisms life, which then can be passed on to offspring
Who is Lamarck?
The father of genetics
Who is Gregor Mendel?
a malfunctioning cardiac sphincter may lead to this.
what is heartburn (acid reflux)?
This astonomical structure, proposed by Karl Schwarzschild, is so massive its gravity draws in everything, including light.
What is a black hole?
A group of protists that are characterized by silica shells.
What are diatoms?
What is it called when two different species evolve to resemble each other, such as the Monarch and the Viceroy?
Mimicry
A specific variation of a gene?
What is an allele?
This structure greatly increases the surface area of the small intestine
What are villi and microvilli?
Diamonds are made up almost entirely of this element
What is carbon?
A device that is used to show the evolutionary relationships among species and groups.
What is a phylogenetic tree? (cladogram)
An Octopus tentacle and elephant trunk are an example of this type of structure
What is an analogous structure?
These types of cells undergo Mitosis (the technical term for 'body cells').
What are somatic cells?
It's the 7 sections of human intestinal tract, in oder, after chyme passes through the pyloric sphincter.
What are the duodenum, jejunum, ileum, caecum, ascending, transverse and descending colon?
These phenomena are measured by the Richter scale.
What are Earthquakes?
There are five classes of chordates. This class of chordates are endothermic, having hearts with four chambers, and having highly developed brains.
What is mammalia?
This can result if a population is significantly reduced by an earthquake.
What is genetic drift (via bottleneck effect)?
What term do we use when chromosomes fail to seperate in the anaphase of either mitosis or meiosis?
What is non-disjunction?
These are the technical terms for red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets
What are erythrocytes (RBC), Leukocytes (WBC), and Thrombocytes (platelets)
This temperature is the point at which all particles stop moving, also called absolute zero.
What is -273.15 degrees celcius
A class of animals which must have one fully aquatic life stage
What is amphibians
Speciation which occurs when species are physically in contact
What is sympatric speciation?
These two events in meiosis result in massive genetic diversity within a healthy population, what are they?
what are cross over events and independent assortment of homologous chromosomes?
These are four secretions of the pancreas
What are trypsin, bicarbonate ions, lipase, insulin and amylase?
This is what a group of porcupines called.
What is a prickle.