Plants
This is the process through which plants turn sunlight to energy.
What is photosynthesis?
Natural selection is a mechanism of this process of nature.
What is evolution?
This selectively permeable barrier controls what enters and exits the cell.
What is the cell membrane?
Fossils are made of this substance.
This term describes an organism comprised of only one cell.
What is unicellular?
These are two of the organelles that are found only in plant cells.
What are chloroplasts, a cell wall, and/or a large central vacuole?
"Fitness" in biology is a measure of an organism's ability to survive and ___________.
What is reproduce?
This organelle houses the genetic material contained in the cell.
What is the nucleus?
This type of fossil does not contain any actual body parts, but is a record of the organism's existance.
What is a trace fossil?
A stable internal temperature, needed by all living things, is also known as this.
What is homeostasis?
What is xylem?
Darwin's Finches are an example of this type of evolution.
What is divergent evolution?
This organelle, known as the powerhouse of the cell, creates energy (ATP) through the Krebs cycle.
What are the mitochondria?
These are two things that scientists can learn about from the fossil record.
What is Earth's past, relationships between ancient organisms, how organisms have evolved, etc.
This field, studying the development of organisms, shows us that organisms that are closely related share many similarities during development (even if they don't retain the similarities into maturity).
What is embryology?
This green pigment is found inside chloroplasts.
What is chlorophyll?
Natural selection is the process by which individuals survive and reproduce due to differences in this.
What is: phenotype, observable traits, characteristics, looks, etc.
Prokaryotic cells lack these.
What are membrane-bound organelles?
The fossil record is incomplete because of this.
These structures are no longer useful to an organism, but are evolutionary leftovers.
What are vestigial structures?
This tissue transports sugars and other metabolic products from the leaves throughout the plant.
What is phloem?
These are three types of natural selection.
What are disruptive selection, stabilizing selection, and directional selection?
Somatic (body) cells divide to create two identical daughter cells through this process.
What is mitosis?
The fossil record can show us these structures, which contain the same bones but are used for different purposes, giving evidence for a common ancestor.
What are homologous structures?
This term describes movement of a solvent (such as water) through a semipermeable membrane (as of a living cell) into a solution of higher solute concentration that tends to equalize the concentrations of solute on the two sides of the membrane.
What is osmosis?