Fossil Record
What is the term for the preserved remains or traces of ancient organisms?
What are Fossils?
The maximum number of individuals of a species that an environment can sustainably support.
What is carrying capacity?
A microscopic infectious agent that can only replicate inside a living host cell.
What is a virus?
This topic shows change in species over time
What is The theory of evolution?
Name three environmental factors that can affect population size.
What is Food availability, predation, and climate conditions.
These inject their genetic material into a host cell, hijacking the cell's machinery to produce new virus particles.
What is viruses replication?
These provide evidence of evolutionary change
What is the significance of transitional fossils?
Climate change altering habitats is an example of impacts in...
What is biodiversity?
In the lytic cycle, the virus immediately replicates and destroys the host cell. In the lysogenic cycle, the virus integrates its DNA into the host's genome
What is the difference between a lytic and lysogenic cycle of viral reproduction.
Describe how the fossil record supports the concept of common ancestry among species.
Sharing a common ancestor
Natural disasters can create new environments and selective pressures. This describes...
How natural disasters influence evolutionary processes.
Viruses can introduce new genetic material into host organisms. This describes...
What is the role of viruses in evolution?
These fossils of organisms lived during a specific time period and used to date the layers of rock in which they are found.
What are index fossils?
Invasive species can outcompete native species for resources, disrupt food webs, and change habitat structures based on this role
The role of altering ecosystems.
Viruses can facilitate horizontal gene transfer between organisms. This describes...
What is viruses' contribution to genetic variation