Ecology
This is called "The Study of Life"
What is Biology?
This organelle is responsible for the majority of a cell's energy output and is considered the POWERHOUSE of the cell.
What is a Mitochondria?
This is the process by which sunlight is captured by plants and combined with water and CO2 to make food.
6H₂0 + 6CO₂ + Sunlight → 6O₂ + C₆H₁₂O₆
What is Photosynthesis?
This body system regulates all body functions and acts as a control center.
What is the Nervous System?
This is the study of how the characteristics of a living thing are passed along from generation to generation; the study of heredity
What is Genetics?
A diagram that shows many food chains interacting with each other
What is a Food Web?
The control center of the cell that contains its DNA
What is the Nucleus?
During this process, cells release energy from food.
C₆H₁₂O₆+6O₂ → 6CO₂+6H₂O+36ATP
What is Cellular Respiration?
This Body System moves blood throughout the body
What is the circulatory system?
This man is considered to be the father of genetics
Who is Gregor Mendel?
This represents any living thing in an organism's environment
What is a Biotic Factor?
Found only in plant cells, these organelles capture sunlight to conduct photosynthesis
What are Chloroplasts?
This is the process by which a species gradually changes over time
What is evolution?
This Body System removes waste from the body
What is the excretory system?
When trying to chart possible gene combinations you will often use one of these.
What is a Punnett Square?
This type of Organism consumes only plants
What is a primary consumer?
What is an Herbivore?
This is a thin, protective covering composed of a phospholipid bilayer, surrounding and protecting the cell
What is a Cell Membrane?
This process involves the joining of a male reproductive cell and a female reproductive cell
What is Fertilization?
This Body System moves oxygen into the body and carbon dioxide out of the body
What is the Respiratory System?
This is an alternative form that a single gene may have for a particular trait
What is an Allele?
This Type of Organism only eats other animals
What is a secondary Consumer?
What is a Carnivore?
This organelle stored food, water, or waste.
What is a Vacuole?
This process involves the division of a cell into two identical daughter cells
What is Mitosis?
This Body Systems supports and protects internal organs while also producing blood cells
What is the Skeletal System?
This kind of gene or trait will always express itself in a gene pair
What is a Dominant gene/trait?
Any nonliving factor in an organism’s environment, such as soil, water, temperature, and light availability
This organelle makes proteins for the cell
What is the Ribosome?
During this type of cellular reproduction, a single cell splits into 4 haploid cells called gametes.
This Body System permits movement of the body, maintains posture, and circulates blood throughout the body.
What is the Muscular System?
This gene or trait will remain hidden if a dominant gene is present
What is a Recessive gene/trait?
This type of organism eats both plants and animals
What is an Omnivore
This organelle contains chemicals that break down substances and old cell parts that the cell does not need
What is a Lysosome?
Both Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration are involved in this larger cycle.
What is the Carbon Cycle?
This Body system involves the breakdown of food into smaller and smaller components, until they can be absorbed and assimilated into the body.
What is the Digestive System?
This denotes the physical appearance of a give trait
What is a Phenotype
Large group of ecosystems that share the same climate and have similar types of communities
What is a Biome?
This organelle is vital to the process of Mitosis, producing spindle fibers
What is a Centriole?
This is the process by which plants lose water through the stomata of their leaves
What is Transpiration?
This Body System returns fluid lost by blood to the circulatory system
What is the Lymphatic System?
This chart shows how a certain trait is passed from generation to generation, usually tracking a type of genetic disorder.
What is a Pedigree?
In this symbiotic relationship one organism is harmed while the other is helped
What is Parasitism?
This Organelle is a microscopic network of protein filaments and tubules in the cytoplasm of many living cells, giving them shape and coherence.
What is a Cytoskeleton?
This process changes nitrogen gas into a form that living things can use
What is Nitrogen Fixation?
This Body system is responsible for the production of hormones
What is the Endocrine system?
This inherited characteristic allows a species to develop over time in response to an environmental factor, enabling the species to survive
What is Adaptation?
These animals are at the top of the food chain and can prey upon other predators.
What is an Apex Predator?
What is a Tertiary Consumer?
This organelle looks like a network of tubes and helps during protein synthesis and transport.
What is the Endoplasmic Reticulum
This natural process occurs when carbon dioxide and other gases trap heat in the atmosphere
What is the greenhouse effect?
This Body System is the set of organs forming the outermost layer of an animal's body. It comprises the skin and its appendages.
What is the integumentary system?
This pattern of heredity can occur when two genes are present for a certain trait but neither gene is dominant nor recessive causing a blending effect
What is Codominance?