Ecology
A non-living factor in an ecosystem
What is abiotic?
This macromolecule stores genetic information and can be found in the nucleus
What is DNA?
Study of how traits are passed from parent to offspring
What is genetics?
Created the two naming system for classification
Who is Linnaeus?
Another term for natural selection
What is survival of the fittest?
The largest level of ecological organization
What is the biosphere?
A substance capable of initiating or speeding up a chemical reaction
What is an enzyme?
A gene that prevents the other gene from “showing”
What is a dominant gene?
The two levels that make up a species scientific name?
What is genus and species?
These are the remains of organisms that lived in the past (normally shells, bones, and teeth)
What are fossils?
The top of a food chain and do not have natural predators
What is an Apex predator
Plants and plant-like organisms make their energy (glucose) from sunlight
What is photosynthesis?
Physical appearance resulting from gene expression
What is a phenotype?
This taxonomic level comes after Order
What is Family?
Body parts of different organisms that have a similar structure but may have different functions
What are homologous structures?
An organism that makes its energy
What is an autotroph?
This process occurs in the mitochondria and cytoplasm of cells to convert glucose into useable energy (ATP)
What is cellular respiration?
When one allele is NOT completely dominant over another (they blend)
What is incomplete dominance?
This is not classed as a living organism
What is a virus?
Features that are present in animals that are no longer in use (wisdom teeth, appendix in humans, leg bones in snakes)
What is a vestigial structure?
Consume both plants and animals
What is an omnivore?
The waste products of cellular respiration
What is Carbon Dioxide (CO2) and Water (H20)?
Graphic representation of how a trait is passed from parents to offspring
What is a pedigree?
An important scientific tool, used to identify different organisms, based on the organism's observable traits.
What is a dichotomous key?
Formation of one or more new species from an existing species
What is speciation?