Ecology Facts
The original source of energy in a Food Web
What is the Sun?
A species that normally lives and thrives in a particular ecosystem.
What is a Native Species?
The building block of all living organisms
What are Cells?
The organelle that captures energy from sunlight and uses it to build sugar molecules
What are the Chloroplast?
The set of observable characteristics or traits of an organism
The Invasive Species introduced to Lake Victoria nicknamed "The Miracle Fish"
What is Nile Perch?
A biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment as a system.
What is an ecosystem?
The organelle that surrounds the cell completely, is flexible, and includes proteins that only let certain things in and out of the cell
What is the Cell Membrane?
The part of a cell that normally contains most of its genetic material
What is the Nucleus?
A square diagram that is used to predict the genotypes and phenotypes of an offspring.
What is a Punnett Square?
Name of the regurgitated pellets of undigested parts of a bird food
What are Owl Pellets?
A diagram that models feeding relationships within an ecosystem
What is a Food Web?
The two organelles that are found in plant cells but not in animal cells
What are the Cell Wall & Chloroplast?
The method that animals use to obtain matter and energy from food
What is Cellular Respiration?
The first animal to be genetic cloned
What is a Sheep?
An Invasive freshwater mussel that cause harm to native marine species and damage to boaters
What are Zebra Mussels?
The process by which plants convert water and carbon dioxide into sugars and oxygen
What is Photosynthesis?
The 3 primary functions of cells
What are respire, take in nutrients, and produce waste?
The 3 materials that plants need for photosynthesis to occur
What is Carbon Dioxide, Water, and Sunlight?
A change in the DNA of a gene that may lead to a different trait.
What is a Mutation?
Plants use carbon dioxide from the air and water to make their own food while animals get food by eating other organisms
What is the differences between plants and animals?
A term for the negative affect that an Invasive Species can cause on to a Food Web in an ecosystems
What is Disruption?
The two things that Food Breakdown provides for the body during digestion
What is matter and energy?
The process of releasing energy and matter for cells to use
What is Cellular Respiration?
The genetic phenomenon in which a trait is not observed, or is "hidden" in the phenotype of a heterozygous offspring
What is Recessive?