Arthropods
Arachnid known for a red hourglass shape on its abdomen
What is a black widow?
Invertebrates with a head, foot, and mantle
What are mollusks?
Substance in a cell that stores information that determines genetic traits
What is DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid)?
The scientific study of heredity
What is genetics?
The tallest tree species
What is the coast redwood?
Arachnids with a long tail and venomous stinger
What is a scorpion?
Multicellular organisms without a nervous system
What are sponges?
The jelly-like substance that is the largest portion inside a cell
What is the cytoplasm?
The combination of alleles an organism has for a particular trait
What is genotype?
Openings that allow air into a tree stem
What are lenticels?
Crustaceans known for being bioluminescent
What are krill?
Group of animals with tube feet
What are echinoderms?
Structure that surrounds and protects an animal cell
What is the cell membrane?
An organism that does not have an organized nucleus
What is a prokaryote?
Food storing central core in a young woody stem
What is pith?
The only terrestrial crustacean
What are woodlice (pillbugs,sowbugs)?
Includes flukes and tapeworms
What are platyhelminths (flatworms)?
Organelle in plant cells where photosynthesis occurs
What is the chloroplast?
Protozoa that move with long, whip-like structures
What are flagellates?
Any system or object that releases carbon dioxide
What is a carbon source?
Crustacean with one simple eye on top of its head
What is a copepod?
Animals in coelenterates
What are jellyfish?
Process in a cell where the DNA information is copied into RNA
What is transcription?
The group of algae that includes volvox
What are green algae?
A tree infected by this type of insect will produce abnormal growths
What are gall-making insects?