Ecology
This term describes the living components of an ecosystem, such as plants, animals, and bacteria.
What is Biotic?
These large, organic molecules make up living things and include four main types: carbohydrates, proteins, lipids, and nucleic acids
What are Macromolecules?
This term describes the maintenance of a constant internal environment in the body despite changes in the external environment.
This term describes the area where an organism lives, while a "niche" describes its specific "job" within that area.
What is a Habitat?
While aerobic respiration requires oxygen, this type of respiration takes place without it.
What is Anaerobic Respiration?
This is the maximum population size of a species that an environment can sustain indefinitely.
What is Carrying Capacity?
This macromolecule's primary functions include long-term energy storage, providing insulation, and making up cell membranes.
What are Lipids?
The cell membrane is made of this "bilayer," consisting of two sheets of lipids with hydrophilic heads and hydrophobic tails.
What is the Phospholipid Bilayer?
This organelle is the specific site where photosynthesis occurs in plant cells.
What is the Chloroplast?
This term describes a group of different populations that live together in a defined area.
What is a Community?
This type of symbiotic relationship benefits one species while the other is neither helped nor harmed.
What is Commensalism?
This organelle is the site of ATP production and is often nicknamed the "powerhouse" of the cell.
What is the Mitochondria?
When a cell is placed in this type of solution, water will leave the cell, causing it to shrivel.
What is Hypertonic?
This process involves the movement of individuals out of a population area.
What is Emmigration?
These types of limiting factors, such as weather extremes or human habitat destruction, affect a population regardless of its size.
These organisms, also known as autotrophs, form the base of every food chain.
What are producers?
When oxygen is unavailable, cells perform this process, which in humans can lead to muscle fatigue and soreness.
What is Lactic Acid Fermentation?
This type of transport moves molecules from high concentration to low concentration and does not require energy.
What is Passive Transport?
If a producer level has 10,000 kcal units of energy, this is the exact amount available to the primary consumers.
What is 1,000 kcal?
Sugars and starches belong to this class of macromolecules, which are the body's primary source of energy.
What are Carbohydrates?
This process, where toxin concentrations increase at higher trophic levels, was famously illustrated by the thinning of bald eagle eggshells due to the accumulation of the pesticide DDT.
What is Biomagnification?
These are the three necessary "ingredients" or reactants required for photosynthesis to occur.
What are Carbon Dioxide, Water, and Light?
The process by which substances are moved inside the cell by a vesicle that pinches off from the cell membrane.
What is Endocytosis?
This type of protein helps move large or charged molecules across the cell membrane during facilitated diffusion.
What is a Carrier Protein?
These are the two waste products created during cellular respiration that are released when we exhale.
What is Carbon Dioxide and Water?