Ecosystems
This is a "rule of thumb" when calculating the amount of energy that travels up each trophic level.
What is the 10% Rule?
This is a cardiac reflex that occurs in mammals when diving.
What is bradycardia?
This is the name given to three nucleotides grouped together during translation.
What is a codon?
This famous evolutionist studied the animals at the Galapagos Island.
Who is Charles Darwin?
This organism is the keystone species of many African ecosystems.
What is the elephant?
This cycle is vital to the production of proteins in living things.
What is the nitrogen cycle?
This is directly responsible for the rising acidity of the oceans.
What is CO2?
What is the phenotype?
This famous geneticist determined that if we had 100% of an organism's DNA, we could determine the % of the adenine, thymine, cytosine, and guanine.
Who is Chargaff?
This organism is known to "fix" nitrogen in the soil to be usable by other living things.
What is bacteria?
Photosynthesis and cellular respiration are processes that cycle this element throughout an ecosystem.
What is carbon?
Any species that is vital to maintaining homeostasis in an ecosystem.
What is a keystone species?
A change in the DNA sequence that does not change the amino acid sequence is known as this.
What is a silent substitution?
This famous astrophysicist wrote a book called, "The Cosmos."
Who is Carl Sagan?
This phenomena began occurring in African elephants, saving their population from demise against poachers.
What is tusklessness?
This is the organism responsible for putting nitrogen into a food web.
What are plants?
This is the definition of homeostasis.
What is "maintaining a stable, internal environment?"
This is the blueprint that is required to make a protein.
What is RNA?
This famous physicist taught the world about radiation, even naming an element she discovered Radium.
Who is Marie Curie?
This is what we call a species that inhabits and ecosystem they do not originate from, causing disturbances to the natural balance.
What is an invasive species?
This is a process in which a keystone species is lost to an ecosystem, spelling disaster for all other organisms of that ecosystem.
What is trophic cascade?
This is the reason orca began to hunt otters, disrupting the ecosystem's homeostasis.
What is "whale hunting?"
This is how much DNA that is shared between grandparents and grandchildren.
What is 25%?
This famous scientist and inventor desired to make all his findings free to the public; his research was mostly funded by J.P. Morgan, and his top rival was none other than Thomas Edison.
Who is Nikola Tesla?
Herbivores have special teeth and digestive tracts, making them better designed to digest this plant carbohydrate that would be otherwise undigestable.
What is cellulose?