Genetics
Physical appearance of a trait
What is phenotype?
Process where the best-suited organisms survive
What is natural selection?
Animal that hunts other animals/Animal that is hunted and eaten
What is predator/prey?
Low average temperatures, very little precipitation, thick layer of frozen soil
What is a tundra?
Genetic Makeup
What is genotype?
Trait that can help an organism survive
What is adaptation?
Maximum number of organisms the environment can support
Must eat other organisms
What is a consumer?
Warm throughout the year, receives a lot of rain, located near the equator
What is the tropical rainforest?
Two of the same alleles
What is homozygous?
All of the individuals of a species that live in an area at the same time
What is population?
When organisms fight for resources
What is competition?
Eats only plants
Consists of lakes, ponds, low salinity levels
What is freshwater?
Two different alleles
What is heterozygous?
Darwin studied
What is finches?
Resource that controls population growth
What is limiting factor?
Eats only animals
What is carnivore?
well defined seasons, dominated by trees and woody vegetation, home of coniferous trees
What is the temperate forest?
Humans-46 in body cells
What is chromosome?
What is variation?
When a population exceeds the carrying capacity
What is overpopulation?
Made up of multiple food chains
River flows into an ocean
What is estuary?