God's Living World
God's call for us to multiply and have dominion over the earth
A plant converting sunlight into glucose, giving off oxygen as a waste product
What is photosynthesis?
This subunit of DNA consists of a sugar, a phosphate and a base
What is a nucleotide?
A trait of a specific character that appears in a hybrid organism
What is a dominant trait?
This man came up with the theory of natural selection
Who is Charles Darwin?
The group in an experiment that is not exposed to the independent variable
What is the control group?
A cell with no nucleus
What is a prokaryotic cell?
A set of three nucleotides (that codes for an amino acid)
What is a codon?
A chart used as a tool for modelling trait probability in offspring
What is a Punnett square?
The process used to estimate the age of rocks
What is dating?
An organism's ability to keep its own processes stable
What is homeostasis?
A whip- or tail-like structure that some cells use to propel themselves through their environment
What is a flagellum?
The process of converting DNA code into proteins
What is translation?
What an organism physically looks like, as determined by its genes
What is a phenotype?
What is a mold and cast?
A type of organism that can make its own food
What is an autotroph?
Water diffusing through a semipermeable membrane
What is osmosis?
The process of a cell splitting its chromosomes into identical pairs
What is mitosis?
A pattern of inheritance in a hybrid in which both traits are present but not blended
What is codominance?
The idea that Earth's physical processes happen at the same rate now that they did in the past
What is uniformitarianism?
The science of sorting organisms into groups
What is taxonomy?
The green pigment found in plants that absorbs sunlight
What is chlorophyll?
The only nucleotide base that has two different base pairings
What is adenine?
The natural process where the ratio of alleles in a population changes randomly over time
What is genetic drift?
A structure in an organism that supposed no longer has any use
What is a vestigial structure?