Ingredients of Life
High energy molecules that contain hydrogen (H), carbon (C), and usually oxygen (O).
What are organic compounds?
A structurally simple cell.
What is a prokaryote?
Asexual and sexual.
What are the two modes of reproduction?
Populations of organisms that have common characteristics and can successfully breed with each other. Must have viable offspring.
What is the Biological Specie Concept?
Organisms that rapidly lose most of their metabolic heat to the environment.
What are ectotherms?
These compounds store energy and some are structural molecules like cellulose or chitin.
What are carbohydrates?
Cell wall.
What is the outside barrier that its outward of the cell membrane on prokaryotes and plant like eukaryotes?
Cell Fission (Binary Fission).
What is the principle method that prokaryote cells reproduce?
The languages used for scientific naming in the Binomial Nomenclature system.
Osmoregulators.
What are organisms that actively control their internal concentrations of salt?
In the ocean these compounds can be enzymes or even poisons, while some can provide structure like hair and skin.
What are proteins?
The organelle in eukaryotic cells where respiration occurs.
What is the mitochondria?
The process that produces daughter cells that have copies of only half (1/2) of the parents chromosomes.
What is meiosis?
Bacteria, Archaea and Eukarya
What are the three biological domains?
Organisms that live on or in the ocean floor (the bottom).
What are benthic organisms.
Lipids
What are fats, oils and waxes, that provide insulation, buoyancy, and water repellence?
Tissues.
What are groups of cells bound together and specialized for the same function?
Zygote.
What is a fertilized egg call?
The eukaryotic kingdoms.
What are Animalia, Fungi, and Plantae?
Daily Double
Organisms where their internal temperature varies with external temperature - pronunciation must be accurate.
What are poikilotherms?
In these organic compounds genetic material is stored and transmitted.
What are Nucleic Acids.
A community or communities in a large area, together with their physical environment.
What is an ecosystem?
Broadcast Spawning.
What is the process where the parents release egg and sperm into the water and the egg becomes fertilized in the water, external to the parents.
A group of very similar species.
What is a genus?
Organisms that "go with the flow"?
What are plankton?