Reproduction
This type of reproduction only requires one parent.
What is asexual reproduction?
The process whereby organisms that are better adapted to their environment tend to survive and reproduce more offspring.
What is natural selection?
Humans breeding animals or plants for a specific, typically desirable trait.
What is selective breeding?
Organisms that make their own food.
What is a producer?
A term used to describe the enormous variety of life on Earth
What is biodiversity?
This type of asexual reproduction occurs when the offspring buds off from the parent.
What is budding?
An organism's ability to blend into it's environment.
What is camouflage?
Another name for selective breeding
What is artificial selection?
Organisms that eat other organisms for food/energy
What is a consumer?
Diagram that describes how organisms get energy from eating other organisms
What is a food chain?
The name of female reproductive cells.
What are egg cells?
Differing characteristics (traits) within a species.
What is genetic variation?
Breeding two animals of the same species that are different breeds.
What is crossbreeding/hybridization?
Consumers that get their energy from producers
What is a herbivore?
Type of organism that converts wastes and dead materials into nutrients that can be used by plants
What is a decomposer?
Fully grown parent cells split into two halves resulting in two daughter cells with the exact DNA as the parent.
What is binary fission?
A genetic trait that helps an organism to maximize its survival and reproduction ability.
What is an adaptive trait?
Breeding genetically related individuals.
What is inbreeding?
Consumers who get their food/energy from other consumers
What is a carnivore?
The variation of ecosystems in a geographic area
What is ecosystem diversity?
The female gametes found in flowers.
What are ovules?
The British scientist who established the idea of evolution.
Who is Charles Darwin?
The changing of the structure of a gene, resulting in a variant form that may be transmitted to subsequent generations
What is a mutation?
High level carnivore that gets its energy from eating other carnivores.
What is a tertiary consumer?
Variation in genes that exists within an ecosystem (ex:different colored frogs)
What is genetic diversity?