Early Life
The main photosynthesizer for over 1B years
What is cyanobacteria?
The majority of organisms on earth today
What are prokaryotes?
The symbiotic process that led to the evolution of eukaryotes
Who were the first modern humans to use nature as inspiration for innovation?
The platform on a compound microscope that raises and lowers
What is the stage?
The first genetic material
What is RNA?
What is binary fission?
A group of cells serving as a precursor to multicellularity
What is a colony?
This direction of the biomimicry process seeks a design application for an observed phenomena
What is the solution-driven direction?
The sterile instrument used to transfer and spread microorganisms onto an agar plate
What is an inoculating loop?
Organisms must be able to do this in order to be considered "alive"
What is reproduce and process energy?
The type of gene transfer that increases prokaryotic genetic diversity
What is horizontal gene transfer?
The emergence of this feature allowed eukaryotes to move, grow, and feed
What is the cytoskeleton?
This design approach directly uses organisms in an innovation or process.
What is bioutilization?
A diagram that shows the evolutionary relationships between a subgroup of organisms
What is a cladogram?
The first domain to evolve
What is Archaea?
Where DNA is stored in prokaryotes
The type of bacterium that led to the evolution of plastids
What is cyanobacteria?
The third step in the problem-driven biomimicry process
What is "translation to biology"?
A cladogram showing relationships between a common ancestor and all of its decedents is depicting this type of group
What is a monophyletic group?
Membrane bound vesicles that could undergo simple metabolism and reproduction
What are protocells?
The vehicle of gene transfer in transduction
What is a bacteriophage?
The type of bacteria that led to the formation of the powerhouse of the cell
What is aerobic bacteria?
Traits formed through this type of evolution may give high potential biomimicry inspiration
What is convergent evolution?
This type of laboratory test helps healthcare professionals classify bacterial types into two categories under a microscope
What is a gram stain?