Cell Organization
This term refers to organisms made of more than one cell
What is multicellular
The layer of the earth that is solid and made up of iron and nickel. It is the center
What is the inner core?
How many dominant alleles are needed for a particular trait to show up?
1
Change over time
What is Evolution
A description of the theory of plate tectonics.
What is the idea that the earth's crust is made up of plates that move?
The term used to describe organisms with one cell.
What is unicellular
The layer of the earth that is solid and made up of many kinds of rocks. It is the outside
What is the crust?
What is another word for heterozygous?
hybrid
Preserved remains of ancient organisms
What is Fossils
The force that moves the plates.
What are convection currents?
The fundamental unit of life
What is the cell
The layer of the earth that is solid in the upper part, and liquid in the lower part, and is made up of iron, magnesium, and silicon compounds.
What is the mantle?
These are proteins that act as biological catalysts
Enzymes
When organisms disappear from the earth
What is Extinction
3 pieces of evidence that support the idea of plate tectonics.
What are satellite images that record movement, plotting earthquakes and volcanoes, and landforms that are the result of plate movement?
This structure completes the sequence: protein, ?, cell, organism
What is organelle
The layer of the earth that is liquid and made up of iron and nickel. Just outside the center
What is the outer core?
This is a number that describes how likely it is that an event will occur.
Probability
What does survival of the fittest mean? (2 parts)
outlasting other organisms and passing genes onto next generations
If sea-floor spreading is taking place, the reason the earth isn't getting bigger and bigger.
What is subduction?
The presence or absence of this central structure is one difference between prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells. It is the center of cells and holds DNA
What is a nucleus
The word that refers to the crust and upper mantle.
What is the lithosphere?
This is the passing of physical characteristics from parent to offspring.
Heredity
Process by which evolution occurs according to Darwin
What is Natural selection
An explanation of how the plates move.
What is the convection currents in the mantle, that are a result of differences in temperature and density in the earth's mantle?