Unit 1
Periodic Table
What is a tool that organizes the different types of atoms?
Double Helix
What is the shape of DNA?
A Punnett square is a diagram used to determine the statistical likelihood of each possible genotype of the offspring of two parents for a given trait or traits.
What is the purpose of a punnett square?
An branching diagram or "tree" showing the evolutionary relationships among various biological species or other entities
What is a phylogenetic tree?
symbiosis that is beneficial to both organisms involved.
What is Mutualism?
a three-dimensional, physical object showing the shape of an object or concept
What is a physical model?
Light
When a person looks at an object, the sense receptors in the eyes respond to changes in what?
A tall plant could transfer alleles for a short plant to the offspring.
What observation led Mendel to the idea that parents passed only part of their genes to offspring?
Both Hutton and Lyell claimed that Earth was very old and changed very slowly over time.
What was Hutton and Lyell’s work?
symbiotic relationship between species, where one organism benefits and the other is harmed
What is Parasitism?
Units for both the axis, labels for the axis, title
What are 3 parts/components of a graph?
To get food energy, plants rely on sunlight and carbon dioxide in the air.
Why do plants perform photosynthesis?
genetic makeup of an organism, as determined by its alleles
What is a genotype?
A male peacocks tails attracts female peacocks for reproduction.
What is the purpose of a male peacocks tail?
an association between two organisms in which one benefits and the other derives neither benefit nor harm.
What is commensalism?