Plant Anatomy
This plant hormone concentrates on the shaded side of a stem, causing cells to elongate and forcing the plant to bend toward a light source
What is auxin?
These salt-tolerant and water-loving coastal trees are classified simultaneously as halophytes and hydrophytes.
What are mangrove trees?
This type of lipoprotein is celebrated as "good cholesterol" because it collects excess cholesterol from tissues and brings it to the liver for breakdown.
What is HDL (High-Density Lipoprotein)?
This is the complex process of maintaining a stable, constant internal environment within the human body despite unpredictable external changes.
What is homeostasis?
This vital process of cellular replication produces two genetically identical diploid daughter cells for growth and tissue repair.
What is mitosis?
These vascular tissues are highly specialized in transporting water and dissolved mineral ions upward from the roots to the leaves
What are xylem vessels?
This colorful Bahamian marine creature scrapes algae off coral skeletons and excretes the ground-down calcium carbonate as fine beach sand.
What is the parrotfish?
This type of digestion physically breaks down food into smaller pieces through mechanical processes like chewing or stomach churning without altering chemical structures.
What is mechanical digestion?
This regulatory mechanism works by reducing the effect of a stimulus to return a fluctuating internal system back to its baseline set point
What is a negative feedback loop?
This phase of mitosis can be identified in diagrams by spindle fibers shortening and pulling individual sister chromatids apart toward opposite poles.
What is anaphase?
This form of plant propagation requires only one parent, produces genetically identical offspring, and includes examples like strawberry runners or potato tubers
What is asexual reproduction?
This apex predator sits at the very top of the Bahamian marine food web, actively hunting secondary and tertiary consumers like Nassau groupers.
What is the Caribbean reef shark?
These small, finger-like projections line the small intestine to vastly increase its internal surface area and maximize nutrient absorption
What are villi?
This hormone is secreted by the pancreas when blood glucose levels surge, prompting the liver and body cells to absorb glucose from the blood.
What is insulin?
This inheritance pattern occurs when neither allele is dominant, producing an intermediate blend or mixed phenotype, such as a red and white flower producing pink offspring.
What is incomplete dominance?
This dynamic occurs when pollen is transferred from the anther of one plant to the stigma of a completely different plant of the same species, increasing genetic variation.
What is cross-pollination?
In a Bahamian marine ecosystem, queen conchs and zooplankton fill this specific ecological role by feeding directly on primary producers.
What are primary consumers (or herbivores)?
These specialized epithelial cells are found along the digestive tract and secrete a protective mucus to lubricate food passage and guard the stomach lining
What are goblet cells?
This right-side pathway of the double circulatory system features the right ventricle pumping deoxygenated blood to the lungs to pick up oxygen.
What is pulmonary circulation?
This artificial process is driven purely by human choice to propagate specific cosmetic or commercial traits, rather than by real-world environmental pressures
What is selective breeding?
This type of specialized plant—such as a cactus—uses modified thick stems for water storage and sharp spines instead of leaves to minimize water loss via transpiration
What is a xerophyte?
This massive human-driven ecological disruption reduces global transpiration, triggers severe nutrient leaching in the nitrogen cycle, and prevents carbon dioxide removal.
What is deforestation?
An inadequate intake of Vitamin C impairs collagen synthesis and directly causes this disease, characterized by bleeding gums and systemic weakness
What is scurvy?
This critical temporary organ links fetus to mother, filters nutrients, handles waste processing, and secretes HCG to maintain early pregnancy.
What is the placenta?
These are the three sequential steps that serve as the evolutionary mechanism driving gradual species transformation over generations.
What are variation, selection, and inheritance?