Cells & Energy
These cells have a nucleus and membrane-bound organelles.
What are eukaryotes?
DNA is fundamentally a source of this.
What is information?
The philosophical belief that nothing exists apart from nature.
What is naturalism (or materialism)?
The study of plants.
What is botany?
Organelle where nutrients are converted to energy.
What is the Mitochondrion?
A section of DNA that contains the code to produce a protein.
What is a gene?
The theory that over time an organism can transform into a more specialized species of that organism.
What is microevolution?
Angiosperms are more commonly referred to as these.
What are flowering plants?
Organelle where proteins and lipids are stored and modified.
What is the Golgi Apparatus (or Body)?
This is the process of copying the information in DNA.
What is transcription?
The hypothesis that over time an organism can transform into a completely different kind of organism.
What is macroevolution?
The two types of cones on gymnosperms.
What are pollen cones and seed cones?
Disc-shaped sac suspended in the stroma of chloroplasts.
What is a thylakoid?
This carries genetic code from the nucleus to the ribosomes.
What is messenger RNA?
The geologically sudden appearance of numerous new life forms in the fossil record.
What is the Cambrian explosion?
The process by which organic substances move through the phloem of a plant.
What is translocation?
This gas promotes ripening of fruit.
What is ethylene?
The waste product of photosynthesis.
What is oxygen?
The process of converting the information in mRNA to proteins.
What is tranlation?
The concept that certain biological systems are too complex to have evolved through gradual changes.
What is irreducible complexity?
A life cycle in which there is a multicellular diploid and multicellular haploid form.