Energy Transfer
Biomolecules
Keystone Species
DNA Fingerprinting
Seed Dispersal
100
Direction arrows point to show the flow of energy in a food chain or food web
What is from the organism being consumed to the consumer?
100
Large molecules needed by living organisms
What are macromolecules (biomolecules)?
100
An organism that is crucial to the ecosytem, and without it, there would be significant change
What is a keystone species?
100
Fingerprinting and DNA Fingerprinting are unique to an individual. True or False.
What is true?
100
The term used to describe when a seed "sprouts"
What is germination?
200
Also known as an autotroph, this organisms makes its own food.
What is a producer?
200
Single unit of a biomolecule
What is a monomer?
200
A balance or equilibrium maintained by a keystone species
What is homeostasis?
200
Represented by the bands in gel electrophoresis
What are DNA fragments?
200
Meaning to distribute or spread about
What is dispersal?
300
An organism that consumes both plant and animal matter
What is an omnivore?
300
Elements needed to form proteins
What are carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen?
300
Despite controversy, this keystone species was reintroduced into Yellowstone National Park in 1995.
What is the wolf?
300
Where you would find the shortest fragments of DNA
What is farthest from the well?
300
Have been known to spread seeds up to 300 km
What are migratory birds?
400
The role an organism serves within its environment?
What is a niche?
400
Known for long-term energy storage, insulation and protection of organs, this biomolecule is also found in cell membranes
What are lipids?
400
As apex predators in the African Savanna, Panthera leo maintains ecological balance
What is the lion?
400
The electrical charge of DNA
What is negative?
400
The type of elephant that spreads seeds the farthest?
What is Savanna?
500
The percentage of energy available to the tertiary consumer from the producers.
What is 1/1,000th?
500
Polymer of nucleic acid
What are polynucleotides?
500
Crucial to the African ecosystem for its seed dispersal, give the SCIENTIFIC NAME of this great creature
What is Loxodonta africana?
500
Indicated by 2 DIFFERENT alleles
What is heterogygous?
500
Due to the 20-meter-long intestinal, the time most seeds make their way through the digestive tract in and elephant
What is 33 hours?