Genetics
The observable expression of an organism's genes
What is a phenotype
The process by which individuals better adapted to their environment survive and produce more offspring.
What is natural selection?
Naming an organism with its genus and species name.
What is binomial nomenclature?
All fungi exhibit this type of digestion.
What is extracellular digestion?
All plants exhibit this type of lifecycle, with a diploid and a haploid stage.
What is alternation of generations?
An allele that will be expressed even if there is just one copy of it.
What is a dominant allele?
Preserved remains of once living organisms.
What is a fossil?
The three domains used in most classification systems in the US.
What are Bacteria, Archaea, and Eukarya.
A chemical that provides toughness and flexibility in fungi cell walls
Chitin
A type of plant that lacks vascular tissue.
What are bryophytes?
The percentage of offspring showing the dominant trait in a heterozygous cross.
What is 75%?
The idea that individual species on the planet can never fundamentally change.
Bacteria that have a thick peptidoglycan layer and appear purple after gram-staining.
What are Gram-positive bacteria?
The type of fungi that includes mushrooms.
What is Club Fungi?
A type of plant that protects its seeds in a cone.
What is a gymnosperm?
A diagram showing the phenotype for several generations.
What is a pedigree?
The study of similar structures in different species.
What is structural homology?
What is streptococci?
A foot-like extension of a cell.
What is a pseudopod?
The seven cells resulting from meiosis in an angiosperm ovule.
What is an embryo sac?
Layers in sedimentary rock, typically used to construct the geological column.
What are strata?
Temporary union of two organisms for the purpose of DNA transfer.
What is binary fission?
A protist that displays properties of both plant and animal like protists such as photosynthesis and can also absorb food from their surroundings.
What is Euglena?
A type of fruit in which the ovary forms a hard covering around the seed and then covers it with fleshy tissue.
What is a drupe?