Terms
Maintenance of a stable internal environment
Homeostasis
Types and amounts of food a person consumes is known as
diet
What must be copied before cell division?
DNA
Collects information and responds to it by sending electrical messages
Nervous System
Physical representation of a gene is called....
Phentotype
An organism that gets energy from breaking down dead organisms
decomposer
an organism, virus, or protein that causes a disease
pathogen
4 haploid cells
White blood cell that destroys pathogens by engulfing them
macrophage
Who discovered heredity?
Gregor Mendel
animals without a backbone
invertebrates
Exercise that involves intense muscle activity for a short time
Anaerobic
Process of making RNA
Transcription
heart, arteries, and capillaries are parts of what system?
Cardiovascular
Aa, DD, and bb are examples of
Genotypes
human reproductive cells are divided during this process
Meiosis
2 internal defenses
inflammation, platelets, fever
functional and structural unit of all living things
cells
Which body system removes waste from the blood and regulates the amount of water in the body
Urinary/Excretory
a behavior that develops without learning or experience
innate
tool used to show the possible combinations of alleles
punnett square
2 external defenses
skin, hair, mucus, saliva
A group of eukaryotic organisms that cannot be classified as fungi, plants, or animals
Protists
Two body systems that work together for movement
muscular and skeletal
example of biotechnology
artificial selection, genetic engineering, cloning