Classification
The division of organisms into groups, or classes,based on specific characteristics.
What is classification?
The smallest unit that can perform all life process.
What is a cell?
The trait observed in the first generation when parents that have different traits are bred.
What is a dominant trait?
A characteristics that improve and individuals ability to survive and reproduce in a particular environment.
What is adaption?
The study of the interactions of living organisms with one another and with their environment.
What is ecology?
Taxonomy
How do sciences classify describe and name organisms?
An organisms that consists of a single cell that does not have a nucleus.
What is a prokaryotic?
A trait that reappears in the second generation after disappearing in the first generation when parents with different traits are bred.
What is a recessive trait?
A group of organisms that are closely related and can mate to produce fertile offspring.
What is species?
Describe living factors in the environment.
What is biotic?
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How many levels of classification are there?
A collection of tissues that carry out a specialized function of the body
What is an organ?
An organisms appearance or other detectable characteristic
What is a phenotype?
The process in which inherited characteristics within a population change over generations such that new species sometimes arise.
What is evolution?
Describe the nonliving part of the environment including water rocks light and temperature.
What is abiotic?
An aid that is used to identify organisms and that consists of the answers to a series of question
What is a Dichotomous Key?
The organ system whose primary function is to support and protect the body and to allow the body to move.
What is the skeletal system?
One set of instructions for inherited trait.
What is a gene?
The trace or remains of an organisms that lived long ago most commonly preserved in sedimentary rock.
What is a fossil?
a community of organisms and their abiotic environment.
What is ecosystem?
Domain,Kingdom,phylum,class,order,family,genus,species
What are the eight levels of classification in order?
The organ system whose primary function is movement and flexibility
What is the muscular system?
The entire genetic makeup of an organism also the combination of genes for one or more specific traits
What is a Genotype?
A historical sequence of life indicated by fossil found in layers of the earth crust.
What is a fossil record?
The part of Earth where life exists.
What is Biosphere?