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Mist.
100
The theory that natural selection can, over time, take an organism and transform it into a more specialized species of that organism.
What is Microevolution
100
Animals that lack a backbone
What is an Invertebrate
100
A life cycle in which creatures are hatched in fresh water, migrate to salt water as adults, and then go back to fresh water to reproduce
What is Anadromous
100
A growth response to light
What is Phototrophism
100
He is known as the father of modern genetics
Who is Gregor Mendel
200
A radical chemical change in one or more alleles
What is Mutation
200
A body region composed of the head and throrax fused together
What is Cephalothroax
200
The arrangement of leafs on the stem of a plant
What is Leaf Mosaic
200
A shelled, water retaining egg that allows reptile, bird, and certain mammal embryos to develop on land
What is Amniotic Egg
200
A small chain of islands where Charles Darwin researched the animal species that lived there
What is The Galapagos Islands
300
The observable expression of an organism's genes
What is Phenotype
300
An organism that can be cut into two identical halves by and longitudinal cut through its center
What is Radial Symmetry
300
A rod of though, flexible material that runs the length of a creatures body, providing a majority of its support
What is Notochord
300
A mature ovary that contains a seed or seeds
What is Fruit
400
Distinct layers of rock
What is Strata
400
A system designed to transport food and other necessary substances throughout a creature's body
What is Circulatory System
400
Living vascular tissue that carries water and dissolved minerals from the roots of a plant to its leaves
What is Phloem
400
A Poison that attacks the nervous system, causing blindness, paralysis, or suffocation
What is Neurotoxin
400
An organism that behaves like a sponge but has a notochord in the larval stage of its developement
What is a Sea Squirt
500
A situation in which abnormal cellular events in meiosis lead to either none of a particular chromosome in the gamete or more the one chromosome in the gamete
What is Change in Chromosome number
500
A free-swimming cnidarian with a mouth and tentacles at one end and a basal disk at the other
What is Medusa
500
A plant that looses its leaves for winter
What is Decidous Plant
500
The transfer of a pollen grains from the anther to the carpel in the flowering plants
What is Pollination
500
Covered with tough dry scales, ectothermic, breathe with lungs throughout their lives three chambered heart with a ventricle that is partially divided, produce amniotic eggs covered with a leathery shell.
What are the characteristics that separate reptiles apart from other vertebrates