Random Biology
The concept that organisms who are the best suited to their environment will be the most successful
What is natural selection
Both organisms benefit from this type of symbiotic relationship.
What is mutualism?
Which organisms have the most available energy in a food pyramid?
Producers/plants
What is the carbon cycle?
A change in a population's allele frequencies over time
What is evolution?
This body system is responsible for hormones.
What is the endocrine system?
The largest organ in the body
What is skin?
Deforestation cause ______ levels to increase and the _______ levels to decrease in our atmosphere.
What is Carbon dioxide and Oxygen?
A biomolecule that serves as a fast source of energy?
What are carbohydrates?
Any inherited trait that increases an organism's chance of survival is known as this.
What is an adaptation
This body system is responsible for gas exchange between tissues
What is the circulatory system?
movement of ions, and molecules across cell membranes without the need for energy input
What is passive transport?
The average amount of blood found in an adult human
What is 4-6 liters?
Modern day birds evolved from these ancient creatures
What are dinosaurs?
The largest land animal on Earth
What is the African elephant?
The legs of crocodiles and cats have similar bone structures and develop in a similar way which indicates a common ancestor. What type of structures are the leg bones?
What are homologous structures?
Evolutionary mechanism that change in allele frequencies because of seperation or catastrophic event
What is genetic drift?
What is an introduced, nonnative organism?
Which type of movement across a cell's membrane requires energy supplied by ATP?
Active transport
What type of cell is a chloroplast found in?
Eukaryote; plant cell
The process by which water moves through the cell membrane to balance out a high concentration of solutes.
What is osmosis?
Which characteristic do all organisms in Kindoms Animalia, Protista, and Fungi have in common?
What is they are eukaryotic.
The largest (and fastest) bird on Earth
What is the ostrich?
Describe commensalism.
A relationship where one species benefits from another species and that species is not harmed or helped.
This organelle serves as evidence that all life on Earth evolved from a common ancestor
What is mitochondria?