Cells
A polymer made of monomers called sugars, or monosaccharides, is called
What is a carbohydrate?
Which of the following is NOT recycled in the biosphere: water, nitrogen, energy, carbon?
What is energy?
Inheritable differences within a species caused by random mutations in DNA.
What are variations?
Another name for an autotroph.
What is a producer?
A reactant of photosynthesis that enters the plant through the stomata.
What is carbon dioxide?
A cell that lacks (has no) nucleus or other organelles made from a membrane
What is a prokaryote?
The % of energy that is transferred from one trophic level to the next.
What is 10% ?
When a species produces more babies than can possibly survive leading to competition for limited resources.
What is overproduction of offspring, struggle for existence, or survival of the fittest?
Where the energy is stored in an ATP molecule.
What are the bonds between the phosphate groups?
A reactant of photosynthesis that enters the plant through the roots.
What is water?
The organelle where photosynthesis takes place
What are chloroplasts?
How do invasive species impact their new ecosystems?
What is decrease biodiversity, out-compete native species and/or cause extinctions?
The ability of an organism to survive and REPRODUCE in its environment?
What is fitness?
A type of population growth that occurs when there are unlimited resources. J shaped curve.
What is exponential growth?
A reactant of cellular respiration that we inhale.
What is oxygen?
Two organelles that plant cells have that animal cells do not
What are chloroplasts and cell walls?
Organisms, such as bacteria or fungi, that recycle nutrients in an ecosystem.
What are decomposers?
When bacteria evolve to be able to continue living in the presence of antibiotics.
What is antibiotic resistance?
A random change in a DNA sequence.
What is a mutation?
Which types of organisms do cellular respiration?
Only Plants?
Only Animals?
Both Plants and Animals
What is both plants and animals?
The organelle where cellular respiration takes place
What is the mitochondria?
The largest number of organisms of a particular species that an ecosystem can support
What is carrying capacity?
At LEAST 3 types of evidence for evolution are
What are the fossil record, comparative embryology, comparative anatomy (homologous and vestigial structures, and comparative biochemistry (DNA and protein comparisons?
Which process takes in carbon from the atmosphere and stores it in the biosphere (plants)?
What is photosynthesis?
The process of breaking down food into a more useable form, ATP.
What is cellular respiration?