Cells & Organisms
Living things are called _________. All _________ are made up of cells.
What is an Organism?
Many organisms make their own food through ______________.
What is Photosynthesis?
__________ are dynamic. This means that the characteristics of __________ and their populations vary over time.
What is an Ecosystem?
________ is the change in inherited traits that occurs in a group of organisms over multiple generations.
What is Evolution?
Humans use _________ _________ to develop organisms with useful or desirable traits. All crop plant varieties, types of livestock, and dog breeds
_____ are the smallest unit that can carry out all of the functions of life.
What is a Cell?
______ and ______ are outputs of photosynthesis.
What is Oxygen and Sugars?
____________ is the variety of species in an ecosystem.
What is Biodiversity?
Evolution is made possible by _______ ________, or gene differences, in a population.
What is genetic variation?
Organisms with advantageous traits are likely to have more offspring. These offspring inherit their parents’ advantageous traits. As a result, the advantageous traits become more common in the population over multiple generations.
What is Natural Selection?
New cells are made through a process called ____ _______.
The sugars can provide _______ ______. This energy can be used by the organism to live and grow.
What is Chemical Energy?
Humans get many benefits from Earth’s ecosystems. These benefits are called ________ ________.
What are Ecosystem Services?
A ______ _______ is an ancestral group of organisms that is shared by multiple lineages.
What is a common ancestor?
The types of organisms that result from artificial selection are considered ____________.
What is domesticated?
All cells have a ____ ________ that separates the inside and the outside of the cell, and controls what goes in and comes out.
What is a Cell Membrane?
___________ helps capture light energy.
What is Chlorophyll?
Photosynthesis drives the movement of ______, or atoms, between organisms and the environment.
What is Matter?
Some shared features, such as complex bone structures, were likely inherited from a common ancestor.
What are homologous features?
Some traits make an organism less likely to survive and reproduce in its environment.
What are disadvantageous traits?
_____ make up the hereditary material inside an organism’s cells.
What is a Gene?
____________ are cell structures that contain molecules called chlorophyll.
What is Chloroplasts?
Photosynthetic organisms produce sugars, which become part of the organism’s _______.
What is Biomass?
Some shared features may seem to be homologous, but they actually evolved independently along different evolutionary lineages.
What are analogous features?
Some traits make an organism more likely to survive and reproduce in its environment.
What are advantageous traits?