Topic 1: Biological Diversity and Survival
These are visible differences in behavior and physical traits.
What are variations?
A role that an organism plays in its environment, which includes what it eats, its predators, and method of reproduction.
What is niche?
What are heritable characteristics?
These variations have a range of possibilities, such as your height.
What are continuous variations?
This is an ecological concept that that refers to the variation of life on earth.
What is biodiversity? (or what is biological diversity?)
These are the types of variations that happen between species.
What are interspecific variations?
These are organisms that have adaptations that allow to them to live in many environments?
What are generalists?
The need to find a mate is a negative of this type of reproduction.
What is a con of sexual reproduction?
These are genes that are expressed, that have two forms.
What are alleles?
A group of organisms that are able to reproduce with one another successfully
What is a species?
The fact that cats have large eyes that can see in the dark is this type of adaptation.
What are structural adaptations?
This type of symbiotic relationship allows one organism to benefit while the other one receives neither benefit nor harm.
What is commensalism?
Binary fission, asexual spores, budding, and vegetative reproduction are examples of this type of reproduction.
What are examples of asexual reproduction?
This term refers to the actual trait that you express physically.
What are phenotypes?
Earlobe attachment is this type of variation
What is discrete variation?
This is what we call variations that help organisms survive.
What is natural selection?
These are organisms that would be higher up in the food chain in comparison.
What are predators?
These structures carry information about heritable traits.
What are chromosomes?
This type of genotype occurs when you have one dominant and one recessive allele.
a mathematical expression of the different kinds of organisms in an area.
What is the diversity index?
The most biologically diverse areas can be found around this imaginary line.
What is the equator?
The bee and the flower is an example of this type of relationship.
What is an example of mutualism?
What are angiosperms?
Changes in DNA that happen due to environmental factors and random errors.
What are mutations?
The study of how environmental factors influence gene expression.
What is epigenetics?