Evolution
He wrote the book entitled "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life".
What is Charles Darwin?
An organism that eats producers
What is Primary Consumer?
A temporary, footlike extension of a cell, used for locomotion or enfulfing food.
What is Pseudopod?
Plants that grow year after year
What is Perennial plants?
These are three foods that have been manufactured using bacteria.
What are cheese, yogurt, pickled vegetables?
Darwin tried to use his observations of this species types on this island to support his theory of natural selection.
What are Finches on the Galapagos Islands?
An association of living organisms and their physical environment.
What is Ecosystem?
In 1928, Alexander Fleming, an English Physician, discovered this wonderful drug quite by accident.
What is Penecillin?
Flowers with both stamens (male reproductive parts) and carpels (female reproductive parts)
What is Perfect flowers?
King Phillip Came Over For Good Soup is an mnemonic device used to remember the classification of living things by this this scientist.
What is Carl Linnaeus?
The unconfirmed hypothesis that explains the idea of one organism becoming another with the adding of information to its genetic code.
What is Macroevolution?
A specific form of symbiosis in which two or more organisms live in a mutually beneficial relationship.
What is Mutualism?
These rings are believed by some to have magical properties because of their unique appearance, which is really just a result of the saprophytic nature of the fungus.
What is Fairy Rings?
A mature ovary that contains a seed or seeds
What is fruit?
A chemical secreted by a living organism that kills or reduces the reproduction rate of other organisms.
What is an antibiotic?
What paleontologists call the representaiton of Charles Wescott's discovery of the fossil representatives from every major phylum that exists in our classificatin scheme in the "Burgess Shale".
What is The Cambrian Explosion?
Vitally important organisms in an ecosystem that take care of the energy that is "lost" between trophic levels (they eat the part of the organisms that consumers don't eat).
What is Decomposers?
digestion that takes place outside of the cell
What is extracellular digestion?
A flower with little or no smell would most likely be this color.
What is Red?
(red flowers tend to attract birds since birds have a poor sense of smell, they are often drawn to flowers that do not have a fragrance. Thus, if a flower has no smell, it is more likely to be red than any other color.)
The process by which living organisms convert food into usable energy (ATP)
What is cellular respiration?
The scientific name of the creature that is alleged to be a transitional form between ape and man.
What is Australopithecus afarensis, nicknamed Lucy?
One of the principal gases involved in the greenhouse effect and has the task of keeping the earth hospitable for life.
What is Carbon Dioxide?
The part of the fungus responsible for extracellular digestion and absorption of the digested food.
What is Mycelium?
The formatioin of the pollen tube.
What is Germination?
Naming an organism with its genius and species name
What is binomial nomenclature?