A vibration of Earth, caused by the release of energy that has been stored along a fault.
Earthquake
What are threadlike structures called?
What is chromosomes.
Monerans that feed on dead organic matter and on living things
Bacteria
Basic units of all living things
What is a cell
What is the expression of both genes in a pair, producing a blended effect
What is incomplete dominance
Any opening in Earth's crust through which hot gases, rocks, and melted material erupt.
What is a volcano
What is it called when a sperm cell and a egg cell get fertilized
What is a zygote
Tiny fragment of genetic material wrapped inside a capsule, or coating, of protein
What is a virus
Hold cells together and let's substances in and out of a cell.
What is cell membrane
a trait that will not be expressed if paired with a dominant trait
what is recessive trait
A shock that occurs after the principal shock of an earthquake
A form of asexual reproduction in which a new individual develops from a bump, or bud, on the body of the parent.
What is budding
one-celled organism that lacks a nucleus
What is moneran
Watery gel inside the cell
What is cytoplasm
a trait that will be expressed if it is inherited
What is dominant trait
Chain of volcanoes formed from magma that rises as a result of an oceanic plate sinking into the mantle
What is island arc
A method of asexual reproduction in which a parent cell divides to form two identical new cells
What is fission
Monerans that contain chlorophyll
What is blue-green bacteria
Controls cell activity
What is nucleus
a trait that is no passed on in DNA, but instead is acquired through learning or experience
What is learned trait
One of the slabs that make up Earth's crust and upper mantle
What is tectonic plate
a form of asexual reproduction in which a new plant develops from a part of a parent plant.
What is vegetative propagation
Chemical poison
What is toxin
Process by which light energy is used to make food
Photosynthesis
One of the units that make up a chromosome; genes determine the traits an offspring inherits from its parent or parents.
what is a gene