Natural Selection
Better traits for the environment survive to reproduce so that future generations are more adapted to the environment.
What is natural selection?
Mitochondrion
What is the organelle providing energy for the cell?
Oceans
What body of water holds most of the world's water?
The process where a cell captures energy from sunlight and makes food from it.
What is photosynthesis?
Where the DNA is stored
DNA is stored in chromosomes.
Different attributes of animals. It is important because some of those traits are better for the environment and will come out in future generations.
What is variation? Why is it important?
Robert Hook
Who gave cells the name “cell”?
Transpiration
When a plant releases water vapor, what is the term that describes that?
What is chlorophyll?
The main pigment in chloroplast during photosynthesis.
A twisted ladder, or spiral staircase.
What does DNA look like?
Selective breeding is when humans take animals with desirable traits and have those animals or plants and have them reproduce.
What is selective breeding?
Galileo Galilei
Who revolutionized people’s ideas of the sun, moon, and everything around the earth in 1609
When water flows over a solid surface
What is a runoff?
A leaf’s main job in a plant.
What is producing sugar for the plant?
Multiple Nucleotides
What is DNA made up of?
Animals with desirable traits will survive and go on to reproduce. This is how life evolves.
What is Darwin's Theory?
The lysosome
What is the organelle that is considered the cells “garbage disposal?”
Photosynthesis, Respiration and Decomposition.
What are the Three Key processes in the carbon cycle?
Small openings on the sides of leaves.
What is stomata?
This molecule consists of three parts.
What is a nucleotide?
Water conservation traits or a shell to stop their skin from drying out.
If an environment dries out, what traits of lizard will survive to reproduce?
Van Leeuwenhoek
Who made microscopes only using one lens in the 19th century?
Sinks
What are the Carbon Reservoirs called?
An organism that makes its own food through photosynthesis
What is an autotroph?
The control center where DNA is found
What is a nucleus?